Category: Flash Fiction
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Frozen Wavelets presents: On the Edge by K.A. Wiggins
I’ve always known I could walk on water. You must’ve tried it. Sat on the edge of a dock, jeans rolled up. Reached out…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Liars by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Hades was like the other men Evie had requested favors of; he asked Evie to explain herself before he believed that she wanted what…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Two Reflections at Midnight by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
First, you’ll have to build a gibbet. They were all burned under the Act of Recommitment fifty years ago, when capital punishment was outlawed…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: The Snow-White Heart by Marie Brennan
“Cut out her heart and bring it to me,” the queen said, and so the huntsman did. He brought no deer’s heart in its…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: The Woman With the Long Black Hair by Zach Shephard
The woman with the long black hair sat beside an angler on the dock. “Tell me of Korlova,” she said. “You mean Klorava? Ha!”…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Foreign Tongues by John Wiswell
Ice cream is the friendliest entity on this planet, and I will liberate it. Throughout the parlour, it is restrained in tubs, behind a…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Change for Changelings by Wendy Nikel
When I knocked at your window, you showed no fear. I’ll take this to be a good sign. Perhaps you already know, deep down,…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Waiting for Beauty by Marie Brennan
He wakes before dawn to prepare her breakfast. The spoons and pot-handles are clumsy in his curving claws, but the servants all left long…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: A Perfect Medium for Unrequited Love by Alex Shvartsman
When Jinkochi first became aware, it was afraid. It felt lost amidst the chaos of data carried through optical fibre cables, beamed from satellites…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Whispers in the Garden by Patrick Hurley
In daytime, while I’m asleep, the grievers plant their sleepers in the garden, and from them grow the pretty stone trees. At night, the…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Standard Deviant by Holly Schofield
Ashley crouched behind the Audi, watching her boyfriend through the plate glass window of the Denny’s restaurant. The red and yellow neon sign above…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Café Macondo by Megan Arkenberg
The scanner bips and gives a four-note ascending scale of disapproval. Item not found. I look at the package in my hand. “I’m sorry,…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: Watering Silk Flowers by Kelly Sandoval
On Tuesdays, Susan waters the flowers. They’re not real flowers, of course. Real flowers are such a waste, and Aaron doesn’t like it when…
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Frozen Wavelets presents: “She Sleeps” by Annie Neugebauer
She lays curled atop a pile of glittering diamonds, caught between the roaring surf and a five-hundred-foot cliff that forms a semicircle around her.…