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Flash fiction stories vary in length from anywhere between one hundred to one thousand words.

The aim of flash fiction is to ensure every word is absolutely necessary.

Stories in this category can cover any of the fiction genres, the challenge being to engage the reader and tell a complete story within a limited number of words.

Philena: Questions

A Philena short...

---------------------- Please be advised that this work contains language which some readers may find offensive. In consideration, Stories Space has hidden the preview of this selection. By choosing to view the piece in its entirety, you agree that you are 18 or older and do not object to such content. ----------------------People ask why I didn't leave sooner. Why I didn't tell someone sooner. Why I just let him do what...

She doesn’t remember it anymore, and that scares her most of all. Fifteen and with the world ahead of her, she didn’t know where she was heading, but it was somewhere. She wore miniskirts and polo shirts, played tennis and was a cheerleader. She was a straight A student headed for success. And that’s what they said. Except she’s 24 now. And she doesn’t know a damn thing. You’d think they’d tell her. But I guess they only...

Your kiss

Will I get a kiss on our first date?

I stand in front of the bedroom mirror looking at how I dress. Black Italian soft leather loafers on my feet, black Dockers with a very fine crease for pants, a light blue cotton shirt sans tie with open collar and a black sport coat make up tonight's wardrobe. I nod my head in approval. It is our first date. Three months ago, I met you at Starbucks. Since then, we meet each morning for coffee and conversation on our way...

Through a Child's Eyes

This was our trip through The Badlands.

The sun rose behind us, as I drove my motor home out of the campground in St. Mary's, Montana. We headed west, our destination Badlands National Park in North Dakota. This was the end of the first week of a five-week trip driving around America. The girls sat at the table playing games and watched, as the miles flew by. They giggled and yelled, when they saw something they liked. We drove I-90 from Montana into North Dako...

Boss: I Found A Letter

Boss finds a letter to Santa written by her kids while she was over seas...

"Bring [them] home Santa, Bring [them] home to Jon and me. Let us wake up Christmas morning and find [them] standing by our tree." ~Bring Him Home Santa... with some edits.I open the shed to get out the Christmas decorations. It's the first time in a while that I've actually done so. It just hasn't felt like Christmas the past few years.When I reach for the box that holds the tree ornaments, a small, crinkled paper falls...

Tomorrow: Chapter Eighteen

If I told, would you take me in? ~Philena.

It's an understatement to say that Stepmonster wasn't all too happy when I got home twenty minutes late. But because he was hungry, he let me make dinner first. Small reprieve, but a reprieve all the same. He had me sit down next to him and watch him eat. Not that I was hungry. In fact, it made me even more thankful for the stop at the cafe that Adam made.Stepmonster tried his version of small-talk."So what were you doing...

Sapphire: Hey Guys...

It's an illness... not a horror movie

Hey guys. My name's Sapphire. Yes, like the gemstone. I know, original, right? What were my parents thinking? Well, my eyes are sapphire blue. Gorgeous image, right? Jealous? Don't be.Have any of you ever heard of schizophrenia? Do you know what it really is? Or is all of your knowledge from one source: movies?Thought so. Not many people actually know what all it entails. Hell, even I don't know everything about it, but I...

As Adam knocks on Boss' door, he goes over the events of the previous day.There wasn't anything to question about the actions of Chase Brickley. It was clear he needed much more than a stern talking-to from the school or his parents. He needed to realize that at his age of 18, he can- and will if Adam has anything to say about it- be tried for attempted rape and assault. Not to mention the very recent stabbing.Philena had...

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Philena: Dear Diary

Why can she not tell Boss (or anyone for that matter) about Stepmonster? About Chase?

9. MayDear Diary,I feel so stupid. Why can't I just tell them? Why can't I open my mouth and say it out loud? I can write it here--it's easy. I don't even care if somebody finds it written here. Why can't I report it? Why couldn't I just tell Boss today? Why couldn't I open my mouth and tell Adam? Why can't I say it?I've been abused for almost ten years. Ten years. See? Easy. I can write it. So easy. But it's like, if I s...

Tomorrow: Chapter Fifteen

Boss sees a piece of herself in Philena...

"If Heaven wasn't so far away, I'd pack up the kids and go for the day. Introduce 'em to their [father], watch 'em laugh at the way he talked." -If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away, Justin Moore.Boss watches as the two of them leave and waits for the door to close, then stands and paces from one end of her office to the other, thinking. The girl thought differently, but Boss could clearly read all the emotions playing out behind...

Arrow

from stories my mom tells about a dog she once had...

The brown eyes steadily watched Eloise from under a plain wooden chair. There was a silent growl filling the border patrol office. Eloise stood at the counter and filled out paperwork. Several uniformed men talked about the Cathoulian in Spanglish. With a word here, and a word there, she began to understand that the dog was sentenced to die, because it attacked an American, where it was supposed to attack only Mexicans. A...

At age five, I had already experienced the loss of a parent. My biological father died of lung cancer. At age six, I had already experienced alcoholism, though not personally. My mom was glued to her wine. That was how I found her one day, walking into the house. I had just gotten home from school and she was already drunk off her ass."Mommy? Mommy, I know you miss Daddy... but I miss you..." She was passed out on the flo...

Philena: Coffee

Goodbye. (This is not canon)

"Let me out. Let me out. Let me out." -Video of Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll.***"Hello?"I jump at the voice behind me, and try to smile, but it's a grimace and he knows it."How are you, Philena? I haven't seen you in school for a week."Adam is too curious for his own good. Someday he'll learn to leave some secrets... just be."Oh, I'm fine. Taking a little bit for myself... mental health days and such. I should be...

The Unnatural World

A man is convinced he's insane when he wakes up in a surreal land

Somewhere I was on a derelict beach. Somewhere I was in a padded cell. I woke up on a small piece of black earth between a sea and a cliff. No sign of life. The suspicion that it was all a dream struck me when I saw a colony of statues in the distance. I stepped into the water and fell backwards once I was deep enough. Didn’t hold my breath. I breathed in and swallowed the salty grey ocean and went into a deep panic as it...

You get stuff you don’t deserve,friends, family, they all love you,but I know the truth.It isn’t what you think, I’m harmless.I’ve seen the way you skulk around,looking at those children,you’re a monster!I have to look at them, nobody else will. Who’s going to protect them?I think you know the answer:Their parents can do that.They will protect them.They can’t. I’m the only one.How arrogant are you? Do you really think I’l...