Absolutely no one:
Alex: “If someone says, ‘That’s my guessssss!’ they’re probably being controlled by a snake.”
Me: “Will you draw an invisible picture for me?”
Alex: “Here it is!”
Me: “What is it?”
Alex: “It’s as big pile of inappropriate words.”
Alex: “I just got water up my nose. It feels like getting tested for Corona.”
It is both hilarious and deeply sad that this is a sentence that made sense to everybody.
Oliver: “Wait what did Evelyn not want me to do? I want to do it.”
Oliver: “That looks…not very safe. And fun!”
Sara: “What’s your favorite toy in the bath?”
Alex: “I gotta say air. It keeps me alive.”
Watching Star Wars:
Alex: “They’re over there doing all the romance while the fight is going on!”
Evelyn, in regards to Kylo Ren: “That’s why you don’t put an emotional teen in charge of the army!”
This is a reprint, but if you missed it the first time around, Infinite Tiny Lives, Infinitely Small is available in this month’s Flash Fiction Online!
Grandma kept her civilizations on a shelf in the living room. She always let me dust them.
(If you’ve already read that one, or if you read it just now and feel like you need more, you can find an original flash story by me in this month’s Fantasy Magazine!)
Alex: “I just got a damn good card!”
Where’d he learn that from???
Evelyn: “I’m gonna give [this card] to Alex.”
Alex: “I have a cuteness that makes people donate to me.”
<Oliver, freaking out because I came within a mile of his camera>
Shane: “Sweetheart, they can’t see me, and even if they could, they are aware you have parents.”
Ah the joys of remote school!
Oliver: “One good thing about covid is I don’t have to clean the food off my face because I’m wearing a mask!”
Just out today, check out a new flash story by me in this month’s Fantasy Magazine!
Although I primarily publish Science Fiction these days, as I reader I was always more of a Fantasy guy. So I am very excited to grace the pages of Fantasy magazine!
So. Fucking. Metal.
Baron Samedi pounds the drums and the whole floor shakes. That’s his thing, earthquakes. I heard the Skull Suckers played Santa Monica and the Baron literally brought the whole place down during a blistering solo of “The Devil May Ride.”
Hopefully you know me well enough by now to know that the story has more heart than it first appears!
I believe the story will be available online later this month, but if you can’t wait that long to get it into your hot little hands (or if you just enjoy great content from a great magazine, you can subscribe here!
Shane Halbach 