by Lynn Lipinski | Nov 7, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
The portal had dissolved the hospital wall, but only Netta seemed to notice. The nurses flowed in and out of the room without so much as a glance at the garden that had materialized. Netta tried to get the night nurse to pluck her a flower from one of wild bushes on...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 31, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
Kelly hopped up the curb and onto the dusty path that ringed North Hollywood Park. The loop was just under a mile, and she figured she could get two laps in before dusk dissolved to night and burn enough calories to enjoy at least some of her son’s Halloween...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 24, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
The man in the Edgar Allen Poe tshirt wasn’t acting. He was actually bleeding to death on the grounds of Minta Deek’s Haunted Playground. But the drunken revelers ignored the moans and gurgles escaping from his slit throat. One even stepped over him and then called...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 17, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
The power went out and with it every electrical form of entertainment that kept Anna and Jackson and their babysitter Makenna occupied. Makenna didn’t like the way the darkness turned the potted plants into monsters or the way it amplified the old house’s...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 10, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Writing
“Surprised!” Grayson typed in the caption box under the selfie he just posted. It was part of his “emotional expression” series of self-portraits he was posting on his blog, a reaction to a casting director who recently said his facial expressions weren’t subtle...
by Lynn Lipinski | Oct 3, 2014 | Flash Fiction Friday, Los Angeles, Writing
Ashley and Calvin stood behind their orange shopping cart, arms touching but eyes fixed on their smart phones as they waited for the one Big Lots cashier to work her way through a line of 20 customers. “That candy corn display has me thinking,” Ashley said....
