Tag Archives: revenge

Refusal to Move (Flash Fiction)

- September 25, 2012

She was driving ninety-five miles an hour again. She knows I hate it when she goes that fast. I’ve tried to tell her to slow down, but she never listens. I knew she was trouble from the moment I saw her, walking into the dealership in her ruby stilettos and short skirt. She practically had […]

Paper Cut Revenge (Flash Fiction)

- September 25, 2012

Sometimes relationships with your co-workers are tenuous at best. I was lucky; most of my co-workers were ambiguously nice. My boss was somewhat indifferent to me, but I was a temp worker at a huge company, so I didn’t expect much else. There was only one office resident that I had a mutual loathing for. […]

Scout Pack (Flash Fiction)

- September 24, 2012

You know that expression “you can’t take it with you”? That shit does not apply to resentment. Violent death aside, the thing that really chaps my ass is that I saw it coming. I knew better than to turn my back on the creepy, yoked-up, tatted kid. He was trouble, right from the start. This […]

Flash Fiction Week: Revenge! (Week Ending September 28)

- September 23, 2012

Not every writer spends his or her days thinking about mayhem and murder. Sure, there are those — like Sara Paretsky, James Patterson, or Michael Connelly — who write mystery or crime stories for a living. But most writers don’t spend their days thinking about the darker side of the human condition. We all secretly want to […]