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    Indies Unlimited: 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology
    Indies Unlimited: 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology
    Indies Unlimited: 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology
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    Indies Unlimited: 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology

    By K. S. Brooks

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    The Indies Unlimited 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology Deluxe Edition features a year’s worth of winning entries from the IndiesUnlimited.com weekly flash fiction challenge. It contains 51 stories by 24 different authors from around the world, with full color pictures by award-winning photographer K. S. Brooks and thought-provoking prompts by five-star author Stephen Hise. From everyone’s favorite caveman named Og to a headsman’s haunted chopping block, there are a myriad of genres and stories to appeal to every taste.
    This book is in full color and is best viewed on a color device.
    Authors with stories in the anthology include: Tui Allen, David Antrobus, Robert K. Blechman, Lynne Cantwell, A.V. Carden, M.T. Decker, Ed Drury, AC Flory, Yvonne Hertzberger, Jacqueline Hopkins, Jon Jefferson, Leonard Little, Marjorie McCoy, Rich Meyer, S.A. Molteni, S P Mount, Matt J Pike, Maggie Rascal/M. P. Witwer, Ben Steele, Kathy Steinemann, Dick C. Waters, Mandy White, Renee Pierce Williams, and Sherri Cook Woosley.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherK. S. Brooks
    Release dateJan 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311187543
    Indies Unlimited: 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology
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    K. S. Brooks

    K.S. Brooks has been writing for over thirty years. She penned her first book, a swashbuckling action-adventure based in 17th century France, when she was fifteen years old. Since then, despite working for a living in the electronics industry, Ms. Brooks continued to write. In 2001, she left the high-tech arena in Boston for the Eastern Shore of Maryland to pursue her writing. That same year, her first novel, Lust for Danger, was published. That action-adventure novel won Ms. Brooks Honorable Mention in the Jada Book of the Year Awards, and invitations to speak at the Maryland Writers' Association Writers' Conference, the Bay to Ocean Writers' Conference, and numerous other venues. She has been honored by the Maryland Writers' Association three times by participating as a judge in its annual novel contest. As the business world and health issues took up more of her energy, Ms. Brooks set her sights on moving West to an environment more suitable and affordable to a writing career. Since her relocation to the wilderness of northeastern Washington State, late in 2008, Ms. Brooks has completed the following works which have been published by Cambridge Books: the suspenseful romance, The Kiss of Night (2010), Night Undone (2011) and three children's books: The Mighty Oak and Me (2009), Postcards from Mr. Pish Volume 1(2010) and Volume 2 (2011), and Mr. Pish's Woodland Adventure (2011). Odd and Odder: A Collection of Sensuality, Satire and Suspense, was co-written with author/scientist Newton Love and published in 2011. She has six more novels planned in the original Agent Night Adventure Series, two in the Agent Night 'Cover Me' series, a horror novel, and a number of Mr. Pish children's books in the works. In addition to her writing, Ms. Brooks is an award-winning photographer and poet. Her articles, photographs, poetry, and blogs can be found in books, magazines, newspapers, galleries, and web sites worldwide. She currently writes three different blogs, and is a guest blogger for a number of web sites including CeliacChicks.com and Celiac-Disease.com. In December of 2011, Ms. Brooks was recruited to serve as co-administrator of Indies Unlimited - a multi-author website dedicated to the independent publishing community. More about K. S. Brooks at http://www.ksbrooks.com More about Indies Unlimited at http://www.IndiesUnlimited.com

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      Indies Unlimited - K. S. Brooks

      Foreword

      by Stephen Hise

      Each Saturday, IndiesUnlimited.com posts a picture by award-winning author and photographer K.S. Brooks along with a short written prompt. Entrants are challenged to write a story no longer than 250 words based on the picture and written prompt within four days of posting. We then ask our readers to vote for their favorite entry.

      While the competition element adds a dimension of fun to the challenge, the purposes and benefits are many. It is our hope that as an exercise, the flash fiction challenge will help writers hone their skills. The discipline of mind required to follow a visual and written prompt and the ability to render an interesting story within the 250 word parameters and on a tight deadline help develop skills that are transferable to other areas of writing.

      We hope to help fledgling writers develop confidence and find inspiration in unexpected places and settings. Even for veterans, the flash fiction challenge can get those creative juices flowing in unexpected ways.

      Ultimately, it is about getting people writing and keeping them writing. By participating once a week — win, lose, or draw — the writer develops a body of work that can be published as submitted, fleshed out into short stories, or even developed into full-fledged novels. If nothing else, the participants can use their stories as examples of their writing skills on their own blogs.

      As an added incentive to get people writing and participating, Indies Unlimited not only features the entries which received the most votes at the end of each week, but also publishes them in an anthology at year-end. This gives everyone a weekly opportunity to enter, win, be featured on the blog, and be published.

      Indies Unlimited is pleased to present the 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology. These contributions are by the winners of our weekly flash fiction challenge at IndiesUnlimited.com. In this anthology, you will find an eclectic collection of stories. Suspense, horror, romance, adventure, and laughs await in these pages.

      We hope you enjoy the Indies Unlimited 2013 Flash Fiction Anthology and will join us at IndiesUnlimited.com each Saturday morning to play along in this year’s challenges.

      All the best to you,

      Stephen Hise

      Founder, Indies Unlimited

      Till Dark

      January 12, 2013

      Diamond Lake Sunset, Newport, Washington

      This is where it had been happening. Back in the summer, when Gary Kessler disappeared, everyone had thought he had drowned. When they found his body, they knew differently.

      Then there was the little Hamilton girl, Old Tom Billings, and half a dozen more.

      Most of the time, they never found the bodies. Sometimes they would just find parts. The town council didn’t want to hear about it. They stuck their heads in the sand and hoped it would go away. Deputy Aldridge knew differently. He had seen it. He saw it take Sheriff Wilson, and he knew it had to be stopped. He came here tonight to put an end to it. He just had to wait till dark.

      Till Dark

      by David Antrobus

      Although he’d seen terrible things, a pretty sunset never failed to bring a tear to Deputy Aldridge’s jaundiced eye. And this was as pretty as any, down by the lake that lay placid as mirror glass under the warm hues of a fading day.

      No time for sentiment tonight, however – he had come to stop a monster. A thing he called, simply, The Horror. The town had suffered enough. He would wait until full dark, the time it always indulged its predations, and he would end its thrall. Checking his Glock 17, he felt a strange calm descend.

      Crouching in the dwindling light, senses alert to the gentle sounds of evening – the creak of a frog, water sounds, a distant train – he recalled the awful endings already endured by the townsfolk: the Kessler kid, rangy adolescent limbs torn off; old Tom’s unspeakable final minutes; and worst of all, little Lucy Hamilton. His nightmares about her fate alone fueled the raging insomnia he’d picked up after Gulf War 1. No, it would end tonight. Only one of those killings had been prompted by cunning not bloodlust: Sheriff Wilson. His old friend had come so close to solving the mystery.

      Aldridge was tired. No more. All light had leached from the sky, barring a sprinkling of stars. It was time. All was quiet. Even the frog seemed to hold its breath. Deputy Aldridge sighed, inserted the Glock into his mouth, pointed up toward his brainpan, and put an ending to The Horror.

      Og Returns

      January 19, 2013

      Young Black Bear, Stevens County, Washington State

      Og is not the greatest hunter in his tribe. Sometimes he sneezes or steps on a stick at just the wrong time. That is what happened when the Sabre-tooth ate Kronk.

      Sometimes, Og would get excited and throw his spear too early. That is what happened when the mammoth squished Nu.

      The rest of the tribe started to think Og was bad luck. They drove him out. Now Og must find his own place. Og needs a cave. This little bear is too young to have its own cave. Og will drive the little bear away and take the cave. What could possibly go wrong?

      Og Returns

      by Ben Steele

      Og crept slowly through the underbrush, looking for the perfect place to spring up and make a Big Noise that would scare off the cub. He would need food soon but it was little, and little things needed protecting. His tribe would laugh if he hunted a cub. One day he would hunt something big, and they would take him back. But today, cave. A faint pang of guilt rose in his heart for choosing to drive the bear away from shelter, but he was cold.

      Og jumped from the bushes, flailing his arms and making his Big Noise, but what Kronk had called his Big Dumb Ugly Foot got caught in a tree root. Kronk was right, Og briefly reflected, before his Gravel Sack, as named by Nu, hit a rock. The blow to Og’s head knocked him out cold, and he remained like that for most of the rest of the day.

      Sometime later, as the sun began to disappear below the trees, Og awoke. In his haze, he grunted, and tried to stand, but there was a warm heavy lump on his

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