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Spelunking [Eaten Alive in the Dark]

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Lisa McCourt Hollar: The lights had burned out but Samuel didn’t mind. He’d seen the creatures that dwelled down here and he didn’t care to see them coming. Thomas was [...]

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Uncommon Cents

by Michael C. Keith: For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light . . .  –Lord Tennyson Eleven year-old Sammy Medford had established a rule about picking up lost pennies from the ground. If [...]

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Dead Ends

by James M. Barton: At the metallic click of the doorknob Jack jerked his head toward the heavy oak door.   Outside, a grey shadow appeared through the small stained glass window. Buttoning his suit jacket, he hurried to greet [...]

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Letters of Grisham Lane

by Adam Jones: PREFACE  These letters were confiscated as evidence in a national murder investigation that began in Chicago in 19XX. News reports saw very little coverage of these incidents because they were classified as highly confidential. Since then, pieces of [...]

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Survival’s Cost

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Jeffrey Hollar: It’s too late to apologize. I feel no remorse for what I have done, though, so the sentiment would be specious. I am a man of vision, of [...]

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Tunnel Torture

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Blaze McRob: Finite dirt particles shake loose from their moorings on the ledges above, signaling the beginning of another cycle, one more in a never ending parade of events which [...]

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Big Betty

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by W. J. Howard: Ben watched as his sister Betty tipped her glass and stared at the milky coating. Desperately, she waved a straw across the bottom and slurped in every [...]

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Bits and Bullets

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by K.L. Coones: This is my third body.  I’m not really human, I just look that way.  I started out in the cloud as a security program protecting the domain from [...]

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Foreign Exchange Student

Reader’s Choice selection from DMC’s flash fiction group, Friday Frights. by Sue Mydliak: You’d think that a small town down south would have nothing interesting happening in it…you’re dead wrong. Tommy and I were best friends, had been for years and [...]

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