Ghost Dreams – Part Two, A Nightmare in Beautiful Gossamer
A cold hand brushed Tommy's cheek. The touch dilated his eyes, turning his world into a bright light shining into his soul. He blinked several times in an attempt to clear his vision.

Slowly his vision resolved into something more coherent, though his mind refused t
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The Pack – Part Eight, the Conclusion
When he awoke, Alpha’s head felt as though a rock were resting on his skull.  His mind filled with visions of Luna’s final moments.  He wondered briefly if his mate had survived long enough to die in slow agony as he was doing now.

Eyes sticky with some sort of sap, he tried in vain to take in his new surroundings.  He blinked a few
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The Pack – Part Seven
Alpha watched as Luna groggily gained her feet.  He could feel the flames doing their destructive dance in the distance behind him.  The danger had returned.  He was lucky to have been so restless this night, spotting the monsters as they set fire to their new home.

He jumped as the clear skies barked out thunder.  One of the pack’s oldest hunters was frozen in a
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The Pack – Part Six
Luna led the cubs in a playful dance beneath the falling snow, snapping at the fluffy white flakes as they floated down to the earth.  She savored the looks of joy on her children’s faces, the youngest lolled her tongue in glee.  She understood her place in the world, her life was for her children.  She would do anything to protect them.

Eight nights had passed since
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The Pack – Part Five
The sun pulled Alpha from his rest.  The sun was already high overhead, he couldn’t remember having ever slept this late—or being this exhausted.  They had been running for several days already.  The puppies wouldn’t survive this frantic running for much longer, and though she tried to hide it, Luna was still recovering her strength after giving birth just a few weeks
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The Pack – Part Four
Luna was torn from sleep and thrust into the morning by a blood chilling howl in the distance.  The sound sent cascades of shivers down her spine.  It had erupting from the throat of her mate, who was stoic and fearless.  His fear infected her and radiated like ripples through the pack.  As one, they bared their teeth and raised their hackles to the dying moon above.

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The Pack – Part Three
The dark clung to Alpha’s fur like fine mist as he stalked gingerly out of the cave.  The birds still slept, but mournful cricket song kept him company as he headed out toward the source of the terrifying sounds of yesterday.

He crept along the forest floor, softly stepping over the leaves that had just begun to fall from the trees.  The crisp morning air stung hi
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The Pack – Part Two
Luna caught Alpha’s scent when he was still over a mile away, the iron sweet smell of the kill mixed with his like a beacon.  He was bringing something back for her.  She licked away the globules of saliva that began to form at the corners of her muzzle in anticipation of her upcoming meal.  The pain of hunger, a dormant fire mountain, exploded within her.  She let go an
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The Pack – Part One
Alpha’s nose quivered as the acrid scent of disease in his prey rushed to greet him.  He hesitated a moment before signaling to the rest of the pack that the old doe was to be their mark.  If he was wrong, and she were healthy, it could mean death.  A deer could crack the skull of a wolf with one of her hooves as easily as his jaws could crush the skull of a rabbit.  Thi
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Just saw another #Writer advising how to reduce word count. #WriterTip

I don't have a problem reducing words. I have a problem making stories long enough to meet guidelines.

Which is why several of my pairs of novels are essentially strings of #ShortStories.

Trying to write a #ShortStory I can enjoy at the moment.

Struggling to get to the 1,000 word mark. It always is a struggle.

Generally, if I can get to 1,000 words, I can manage 1,500. These days, 2,000 seems a stretch.

And knowing I have written a few 85,000 - 90,000 word novels seems so far out of reach.

Maybe if I can get my brain working again.

Concurrent Earths

A forgotten past.
An unreached future.
A collection of places that may, or may not, be.
#ShortStories stir the soul, and grasp at long forgotten truths which beg to be heard.

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#SciFi
#ShortFiction
#ShortStories

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Concurrent Earths

A forgotten past.
An unreached future.
A collection of places that may, or may not, be.
#ShortStories stir the soul, and grasp at long forgotten truths which beg to be heard.

#AlternativeEarths
#SciFi
#ShortFiction
#ShortStories

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I should probably pick something other than Collecteds, but:

Collected Stories by Lydia Davis
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Dubliners by James Joyce

Gosh if I just add Chekhov and Kafka this is the most predictable shit ever

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