This is a flash fiction about a medical procedure in the near future. It is best summed up with a line uttered by the main character: “Why on God’s green Earth would anyone develop a cancer treatment like this, that only worked if the patient was conscious?” Published by Dark Horses Magazine in an anthology available on Amazon.
Check my author’s page for other great anthologies featuring my work.
This story is about a professional assassin with an unusual way of doing business. And he’s doing business with someone equally peculiar. Published by the aptly-titled journal Half Hour To Kill. Unfortunately the publication is no longer available.
image rendered with DALL-E by author
50-word stories are known as Dribbles, those with 100 are called Drabbles. The Dribble Drabble Review publishes them both and in Issue VII is my 50-worder about a very sad garage sale. Unfortunately, DDR no longer exists.
Published on Twitter by Cuento Magazine.
One year ago, my 50-word story appeared in 50 Give Or Take.
by DL Shirey
One-two-three-four-five-six, blow. One-two-three-four-five-six, blow. The same rhythm every time. Each rasp of her emery board makes me grip the steering wheel tighter.
At arms length she studies her work, spots a flaw and attacks the inexactitude in cadence. She splays five fingers, nods and begins the other hand.
One-two-three-four-five-six, blow.
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DL Shirey 