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    Dark Flash 2
    Dark Flash 2
    Dark Flash 2
    Ebook46 pages37 minutes

    Dark Flash 2

    By Maria Haskins

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    Ten stories of dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Wolves and angels, witches and robots, beasts and lost children...there's a bit of everything in this collection of flash fiction! All ten stories originally appeared on R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast, and are now available as an ebook for the first time. This is a sequel of sorts to Dark Flash, published in 2016.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Haskins
    Release dateDec 4, 2017
    ISBN9781370832781
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      Dark Flash 2 - Maria Haskins

      DARK FLASH 2

      Maria Haskins

      Published by Maria Haskins at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Maria Haskins

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smahshwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      The Weight of the Sea

      Wolves & Girls

      Lost

      Magpies And Moonshine

      Hungry Beasts

      A Song For Hugo

      Deathlight

      Hidden

      Buried

      Angel's Heart

      Links to episode story prompts

      About the Author

      Book-cover created by Maria Haskins using Canva.

      Foreword

      The ten stories included in this collection all appeared on The Word Count Podcast in 2017. This fabulous podcast is hosted by my friend and fellow author R.B. Wood, and you can keep up with new episodes, and listen to a wealth of old stories, on his website.

      This year, each story prompt was a photograph. I’ve included links to these prompts at the end of the book to show the inspiration that kickstarted these tales.

      If you want to read more of my fiction, check out my website, or pick up a copy of Dark Flash, featuring the stories I wrote for The Word Count Podcast in 2016.

      Thank you for reading!

      The Weight of the Sea

      What does Death look like?

      Abby used to ask me that. She’d sit there in her hospital bed, seven years old, with tubes snaking in and out of her, and ask me that.

      I think about her as I’m standing on the road this January morning, the sky a shimmer of light over the snow and withered grass and rippling water of the estuary. I know the water is cold. I know that further out, once the tide moves in, it will be deep. I know that whatever ice there is will be treacherous, and I know that if you go in, you won’t come out again.

      Turning around, I head back into town, walking the alleys and backstreets like I always do in the mornings.

      I find Emilia first. She’s laying under a jumble of newspaper, cardboard, and ragged blankets outside the bank. You might almost think she’s sleeping, but there’s a shiver of breath to mar the clarity of the dawn air around her.

      I’ve seen her before. I’ve seen her scrounging cans from the garbage bins, seen her try to warm herself with a cup of coffee or a cigarette, lined up at the soup kitchen.

      I touch her cheek, gently, almost a caress, and feel her go still beneath my hand. Her dog is curled up at her feet, a grey tousle of fur beneath the blankets, and I touch him too, before he has a chance

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