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Friday flash fiction – Stay Out of the Kitchen

In moonlight, Chef Bela’s Gastronomy Pod looks like a giant silver snail, sliming up Crabtree Park. Vincent Pankhurst sneers at the chrome striping, the hand-chalked menu, and especially the inelegant student-artist caricature of the food van’s owner. The gap-toothed cartoon … Continue reading

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Friday Flash Fiction – The High Ground

Dirty water laps at the edge of the corrugated tin roof as Craig searches the sky again. The rescue chopper is nowhere to be seen against the boiling black clouds. Thunder cracks and the rain is hitting him like a … Continue reading

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Friday flash fiction – Conflagration at Confrontation Bridge (A Conservatorio Esoterica story)

Custodian Quech bit off a fat chew of sombol gum while Blaph, her eight-limbed deputy, dragged bodies from the canal beneath Confrontation Bridge. The witness continued his breathless narrative. “My friends and I were drinking swallowsap and reciting bluster-follies at … Continue reading

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