My crack pipe is digital and fibrous and reflects light, a trillion tiny messages packed up neat as you like and shot-thought out, across space and time. My crackpipe comes in flavors, blue and white lasers, reticulated star-gazers and the cost is steep. The High Animal, ribald in his hopes for godlessness, sweats and shits [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flash fiction’
flash fiction: nutroll
Posted: 28th December 2009 by Eric in Fiction, Uncategorized, free fictionTags: Fiction, flash fiction, writing
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The moon was spying on me, watching me through my little window. The sky was blue and the winter moon was a clear three-quarter full. The only other thing visible from my high window was a massive pine. It was like and angry watcher, its branches fracturing the afternoon blue of the sky.
The moon watched [...]
Flash Fiction: The Darkness precedes the Outsiders
Posted: 6th February 2009 by Eric in free fictionTags: flash fiction, outsiders
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She wells up from beneath, a leviathan of old, hungry and elemental, witnesses feel the disturbance, but their rolling minds cannot make sense of what occurs about them. It’s a storm, swirling motions of thought and insight and anger, such raw, intense anger.
Plants wither and the ground blackens, turns cold, frosted and crackles. The sky [...]
Kryptonite, A Girl’s Smile
Posted: 15th January 2009 by Eric in free fiction, writingTags: flash fiction, free fiction
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The slew of the country roads made him smile every time. He lost himself in these outside places, lost hamlets and villages dotted the American landscape, and at times he felt as if it were his sole responsibility to rediscover them. A loose receipt flittered around the car’s cabin and he played with the windows, [...]
Free fiction: Gloom
Posted: 23rd December 2008 by Eric in free fictionTags: flash fiction, free fiction, science fiction
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by Eric Staggs, 2007
He was an agent of change. Real, tangible change. Where he passed, ripples shook society and ground alike. Nothing could be the same after an agent of changed passed this way. He’d been sitting motionless for hours or years, now. Timed-release narcotics saturating his blood. He blinked once a minute, and then [...]
Free fiction: Kali sat next to me on the train
Posted: 22nd December 2008 by Eric in free fictionTags: Fiction, flash fiction, free fiction
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by Eric Staggs
October 2, 2005
Kali sat next to me on the train. Her eyes were half closed, but I could see her irises were gold. She had six arms and each of her hands, beautifully manicured. Gold and bronze bracelets jingled softly as she shifted her arms. This Hindu goddess of destruction sat nearly motionless, [...]