Flash Fiction Vote: Which Was Your Favorite?

vote countsSooooo many good entries in the flash fiction challenge this week: which one will come out on top? This is where you come in. Take a read; cast your vote. Which was your favorite?

Check out this week’s entries here. Make your choice, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word.

Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time.

[NOTE FROM ADMIN: The poll software failed to close the poll at the proper time, allowing votes to be cast and registered past the time specified in the rules. As a result, additional votes were registered that should not have been counted.The contest information states the voting will close at 5 PM US Pacific Time. Therefore, the vote will revert to the totals at 5 PM US Pacific Time on January 30, 2014.  Entrant Brenda Perlin wins with a final count of 32 votes to 31 for MT Decker.]

NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit are eliminated from the poll.

Flash Fiction Challenge: Sentry

Photo by K.S. Brooks
Photo by K.S. Brooks

Devil watched as the raggedy band of humans maneuvered through the narrow confines of the canyon below.

He could smell the death clinging to them. He knew they had not found the water and they were walking farther from it every minute.

In another mile or so, it would be too late. They would be at the mercy of the Black Canyon Pack. But Devil was not like the rest of the pack. He did not think it wise to make prey of humans.

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Flash Fiction Vote: Which Author Will Break Out?

voteguyAhoy, mateys! The flash fiction challenge has weighed anchor. It’s time for the voting to commence. There are lots of great entries to choose from this week. Which was your favorite?

Check out this week’s entries here. Make your choice, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word.

Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time.

 

Whose story was your favorite this week?

  • Mandy White (29%, 16 Votes)
  • John Shirley (15%, 8 Votes)
  • Brian Beam (11%, 6 Votes)
  • Kathy Steinemann (11%, 6 Votes)
  • Jon Jefferson (11%, 6 Votes)
  • AV Carden (7%, 4 Votes)
  • Candace Gylgayton (5%, 3 Votes)
  • AL Kaplan (5%, 3 Votes)
  • Wendy and Charles Siefken (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Annette hatton (2%, 1 Votes)
  • James R. Tate (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 55

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NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit are eliminated from the poll.

Flash Fiction Challenge: The Place of Bones

Castillo de San Cristóbal old san juan 1999
Photo by K.S. Brooks

The Place of Bones. That is what the English prisoners called it. The Spanish had a more pleasant sounding name for it, but the English nickname stuck, and for good reason.

It mattered very little to the men inside, for they comprised their own nation, bound together in misery and released only by death.

But in 1682, John Deane was brought to the prison fortress. John was well-known among the Brethren of the Coast. He’d been caught and tried and sentenced to hang in half a dozen ports. Somehow John always managed to slip away. The men tried to tell him that this time it would be different.

John laughed and said, “Gentlemen, I’ve not come to steal away in the dark this time. No, we shall all leave together, and with all the Spanish gold we can carry.”

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