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Flash Fiction

Do Not Resuscitate

It was nine o’clock on Halloween night and the rain had stopped. It had been a cold, needling rain, the kind that turned the streets black and glossy and made every jack-o’-lantern look as though it were floating in a puddle. Dorothy Reynolds was on her way home from a gathering at a friend’s house […]

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Flash Fiction

Candy Bill’s

Meryl stood with her two sisters, peeping through the display window of the candy shop, and silently observing the striking array of sweets which were perched upon beautiful crystal dishes and vivid red skirting. Meryl licked her pink lips. At her side stood Wendy who, at seven, was three years younger. And next to Wendy […]