Tag: flash fiction
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Tales of the Dragon — Part Four
Eleven years of searching end in a village square. A boy who was never given a name finally claims his own. And Old Maren, unmoved as ever, keeps watching for who’s ready to carry the story next.
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Tales of the Dragon — Part Three
Eleven years without a rumor of an answer. He’s not chasing a royal daughter or wolves that were never lost. The stranger shows Old Maren something, changing the story she thought she knew.
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Tales of the Dragon: Part II — Vhorrak Arrives
A dragon curls around the village well and falls asleep. Old Maren was there. Now she tells it to the children at her feet — all of it, except the part about the wolves.
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Tales of the Dragon
Every dragon story ends the same way — the beast falls, the village cheers. This one starts with a stranger, a ring, and questions more than eighty years old.
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Nine of Spades
A card reading. A dead cigar. And a thirteen-year-old boy who didn’t believe in any of it — until Uncle Wade folded the silk and never touched the cards again.
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Proof
Donna is up at five-fifteen. Two hours before Caitlin will be thinking about waking up. Donna is out of things to write. Caitlin is leaving at eight.
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The Dragon Remembers
The dragon never fought. Never growled. Never breathed fire after the first few weeks being tethered to the chain. That was the hardest part for the Keeper to explain. The Dragon Remembers. Five Minute Observations.
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Can I Ask You a Question?
She smoothed her red dress, grabbed her purse, and said she knew a lot about accounting. She wanted to ask me a question and I told her it could wait. That was my mistake.
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He Knows My Name
A stranger in Pioneer Square quotes lines from banned books. Ink-stained fingers. Knowledge of old stories makes him dangerous. But it’s what he knows about me that turns my blood cold. In a world without books, how does he know my name?