Flash Fearsday / J is for Joker

Some call me a wild card.
Others say I'm two-dimensional, a caricature.
Flat affect? Ha! See me laughing?
Be glad they make me wear bells.

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Flash Fearsday is a 140-character (or, for the long-winded and Twitterless, 140-word) microfiction horror challenge, hosted here on Nine Worlds, Ten Thousand Things within four days (one way or the other) from a Thursday. Anyone can play. Line breaks count as one character. Feel free to link to your entry or post it directly in the comments.

F is for Flash Fearsday

Revolutionary thoughts?
Patently inadequate.
Ultimately, successful execution seems essential for getting ahead.
Madame Guillotine concurs.

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Flash Fearsday is a 140-character (or, for the long-winded and Twitterless, 140-word) microfiction horror challenge. I don't know where it is officially being hosted these days, but it will be here, if nowhere else.

Expansion Joints, part 39: "Pick" / Flash Fearsday

This is my response to Part 39 of the Expansion Joints Challenge, and to the January 12th Flash Fearsday. ***************************************************************************
"Another homicidal worker?"
"Neurotoxic exposure, manual excavation methods - mining's hazardous."
"Recommendations?"
"Don't say "Pick me!""
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Flash Fearsholiday: Hanukkah Horrors

This is my response to this weeks' (soon-to-be-released?) Flash Fearsday, a 140 character (or 140 word) microfiction horror challenge. I went with a Hanukkah theme in honor of the upcoming holiday...

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"We can hold out if we keep the fire going. They avoid it."
"Fuel?"
"One day, max."
"When do the others get back?"
"8 days."
"G-d help us."

Expansion Joints, part 31: "Skip" / Flash Fearsday

Rhythm regulating universal order,
primal heartbeats'
standing vibrations creating organization,
manifesting beauty.
Skip? Fatal arrhythmia.

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This is my entry for part 31 of the Expansion Joints Challenge and for this week's Flash Fearsday 140-character horror challenge.

Flash Fearsday / Expansion Joints, part 30: Plaguing Your Conscience?

Carried forward through pressure,
inexorably compelled,
reaching critical threshold, dispersing...
Vent?!
Spreads emotional contagions, too.


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This is my response to part 30 of the Expansion Joints Challenge and to the October 6th 140-character Flash Fearsday horror challenge over at Lunching on Lamias.

Expansion Joints, part 29b / Flash Fearsday

Spiraling despair paralyzing initiative.
Motivation?
Illusory abstraction without propulsive momentum.
Depression forming!
Don't fall in...


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This is a combined response to part 29 of the Expansion Joints Challenge and to the Flash Fearsday horror challenge at Lunching on Lamias.

Flash Fearsday: Eye of the Storm

The voice of the storm howls out a warning.
Its arms sweep out a path of destruction.
But the eye, the eye is calm and silent.
Watching...

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This is my response to the August 25th, 2011 Flash Fearsday challenge over at Lunching on Lamias.

Flash Fearsdismayed

"Are you certain it's vanished completely?"
"Vanished? It's like it was never there at all. No trace."
"What will we do with Thursdays now?"

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This is my response to the gaping hole in the fabric of space-time that appears to have swallowed this week's Flash Fearsday challenge over at Lunching on Lamias. The horror of it all!

Flash Fearsday - Inescapable Logic / Expansion Joints, part 19 "Break"

This post is a two-for-one: this week's response to the Expansion Joints Challenge, and also to the Flash Fearsday 140 character microfiction horror challenge over at Lunching on Lamias.

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Break down?
Functional indications...
Break in?
Surveillance revealing... nothing?
Nothing!
Absolutely vacant...
Break out?
Inescapable...

Flash Fearsday - The Next Generation

"You found the energy drain?"
"Positive."
"Permanent?"
"Usually is. Some say it lessens over time."
"What's it called?"
"This one? Junior."

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This is my entry for the June 23rd, 2011 Flash Fearsday challenge. over at Lunching on Lamias, where the mission is to write a horror tale in 140 characters. This week's entry is dedicated to my friends who are the proud, but sleepless, parents of a two-month-old baby.

Flash Fearsday / Expansion Joints: part 12, "Missing"

This is my response to the May 19th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters, and my response to this week's Expansion Joints Challenge. I'm following Porky's lead, and making my writing pull double duty this week.

Zombies again, but from a little different perspective.

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"Post-traumatic catatonia?"
"Substantially..."
"Really, what's worse than shooting your zombie wife?"
The psychiatrist shuddered.
"Missing."

Flash Fearsday: Stopping By Late

I told her that I would be late when I stopped by her house, which made the weapons and the screams of "Zombie!" that much more puzzling.

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This is my response to the May 5th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters.

Flash Fearsday: Xenophobia

Stranger, danger!
Don't stray yonder. Walk right home. Never wander, run or play:
stick to the familiar way.
What else would a hunter say?


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This is my response to the April 28th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters. It is also my "X" entry for the A-Z Blogging Challenge.

Flash Fearsday: Q is for Quiescent

Sleep...
Beautiful Sleep!
Sleep, where the Hunger cannot follow...
The Hunger rising? No!
Flee! Return to sleep, sweet sleep?
Too late...


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This is my presponse to the April 21st, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters. It is also my "Q" entry for the A-Z Blogging Challenge.

Flash Fearsday: Machinations

There is strength in numbers.

In numbers, strength!

As if your analog minds could comprehend the truth of it...

We do, and we are strong.



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This is my response to the April 14th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters. It is also my "M" entry for the A-Z Blogging Challenge.

Flash Fearsday: Unfathomable

Water rippling, silver and black.
What does it conceal?
Moon beams cannot interrogate from above.
Sightless eyes stare back -
Dead silence.



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This is my response to the April 7th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Lunching on Lamias, which challenges you to write a horror story in exactly 140 characters. It is also my "F" entry for the A-Z Blogging Challenge.

Flash Fearsday: Number of the Beast

She sighed with relief, the assassin unmasked, but with 140 characters, could she be certain only one was evil? At least one was a cipher...






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This is my response to the March 31st, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Porky's Expanse!, or possibly over at Lunching on Lamias, (I am playing a little with the concept of linear time, responding to things which haven't yet appeared!) which challenges you to write a short story in exactly 140 characters.

Flash Fearsday: Surprise

Birthday dinner out?

No lights, our car in the drive.

Strange one at the curb.

Surprise party?

Step into black.

Muzzle flash shows her body.

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This is my response to the March 24th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Porky's Expanse!, which challenges you to write a short story in exactly 140 characters.

Flash Fearsday: Nightmares

Nightmares again! Eyes straining, wide open in the dark, she listens for his breathing. There, beside her...steady, deep, regular - not his!


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This is my response to the March 17th, 2011 Flash Fearsday exercise over at Porky's Expanse!, which challenges you to write a short story in exactly 140 characters.