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(just like) starting over flash fiction

by littlefallsmets

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“My parents,” Dakota said gently, “my uncles, their generations were not going down without a fight against fighting.” “So,” Bobby sputtered incredulous, “they gathered a bunch of theoretical phy...


They had hoped connecting every mind on the continent psychically, even for one split-second, would manifest as a love that overwhelmed all other impulses, leaving America with a chance to breath...


Once Reagan “bit the wax tadpole”, as Kurt laconically described the assassination, Secretary of State Alexander Haig stepped in swiftly to seize control of the presidential powers as a “Martial ...


“Philboyd,” the taller uncle finally moved away from Dakota toward Bobby, “let the kid be, huh” then he corrected himself, “let the five-hundred-year-old time-traveler be, he’s clearly in a lot o...


After peppering Dakota with condolences and concerns, the shorter balder of the adoptive uncles turned his attention to the lightly-singed Bobby, still in that folding chair, attempting to will e...


“Have you ever killed yourself?” Dakota just stared at him, wide-eyed, her very spine reflexively drawing her head further back from him. “I know it’s a weird thing to ask a stranger out loud, bu...


“I mean,” the woman awkwardly corrected herself, “Dad goes by Lennon-Ono, in tribute to my mom, but she passed when I was young, I always felt closer to-” She stopped herself. Why was she being s...


“Awake again. You rally quick.” The shambles of a man didn’t even look up at the voice, reflexes grasping for the bottomless pack, no regard for anything else. It was gone, though, and worse he w...


There wasn’t much extraordinary about the person lying where the machine had once been, apart from the fact he’d appeared out of thin air as it exploded. That in-and-of itself was extraordinary, ...


Book Description

a flash thread that might turn into a novel, I dunno