Prompt: dryads snatch children to raise as their own. With elemental superpowers they avenge Gaia

my favorite flash fiction pieces over the years I will be posting these short pieces over the next year or so. They all came from a creative writing group in Frankfurt, run by my friend Martin Gamble.  Unfortunately, he moved to Berlin just before the lockdowns in 2020, and we’ve only been in touch via […]

Cirque Erotique

This funny short is included in the anthology Open Bookcase Vol. 2 with stories from the English Creative Writing Group Frankfurt. Cirque Erotique A yellow-and-red-striped big top stands in the field. Lines of parents with sugar-sticky children wait to be allowed inside, to witness the marvels of exotic worlds. With snakes, according to the garish […]

Prompt: we are at war with a world where everyone is a shape-shifter.

What makes writing prompts so much fun is that it allows us to branch out from what we usually write. I never write sci-fi, and this prompt initially stumped me. But after pushing through, I was super happy with the end result. P.S. I wrote this way before Covid was a thing…   Lycantra When our […]