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    Ephemeron
    Ephemeron
    Ephemeron
    Ebook70 pages43 minutes

    Ephemeron

    By G. Deyke

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    One month.

    Thirty-one stories.

    Fourteen challenges.

    Whether you prefer sadness or silliness, humor or poignancy, action or allegory: these 31 very short stories include a little something for everyone, from the instant messaging logs of Norse deities to the struggles of a banana peel. Written entirely during July 2015 as a part of Flash Fiction Month.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG. Deyke
    Release dateAug 10, 2015
    ISBN9781310367472
    Ephemeron
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    G. Deyke

    G. Deyke is an indie author of games, novels, short stories, flash fiction, and the occasional poem. They will write anything from humor to horror to fairy tales, but have a particular penchant for speculative fiction: especially (though not exclusively) fantasy. They currently reside in a small village in southern Germany. Due to a tragic imbalance of their machismo-to-sense ratio, G. Deyke can never refuse a ridiculous challenge.

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      Ephemeron - G. Deyke

      Ephemeron

      by G. Deyke

      Copyright 2015 G. Deyke

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for your download of this ebook. You may share it non-commercially as much as you like, provided it remains complete, unaltered and properly attributed: copy it, gift it, print it out on bacon with non-toxic ink and feed it to a passing ichthyosaur. Just don't ask the ichthyosaur to pay you for it. It wouldn't be able to anyway: they aren't known for carrying wallets.

      If you enjoyed this ebook (and not just because it was given to you, an ichthyosaur, in the form of bacon), please consider taking a look at G. Deyke's other work.

      Thank you for your support.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Where Sunshine Cannot Follow

      Melissandra's Last Day

      Good Intentions

      Ephemeron

      Sarah

      Complacency

      Why Not to Nap

      Fire Burns

      Fav This Tweet

      Short Fuse

      The True Meaning of Affection

      Butterfly

      Expulsion

      They Long to be Heard

      And the Night Answered

      Blood and Brie

      Damien

      Nameless

      I Will Always be Waiting

      What Hails From the Heavens

      Absence

      Faith and Ambition

      The Beldam's Leer

      I Will Save Them

      The Great Gauntlet

      The First of My Kind

      Proximity

      The Price

      The Princess of the Frozen Realm

      The King's Gifts

      Jeanne's Miracle

      Closing Words

      Find G. Deyke Online

      Introduction

      Few things are as ephemeral by nature as flash fiction. In no more than a thousand words (though, here, no less than fifty-five) one has time to paint a single moment, a single story, a single scene: and then the moment is over and the story resolved, and only the impression of it remains.

      These thirty-one ephemera were written as a part of Flash Fiction Month, which is just what it sounds like: thirty-one stories for the thirty-one days of July, nearly half of them meeting additional challenge criteria. They are varied, diverse, unconnected, and otherwise dissimilar. They will not take much of your time.

      They will, however, leave an impression: and that, I hope, will last a great deal longer.

      Please enjoy.

      Where Sunshine Cannot Follow

      In the mornings, he kisses his husband and his wife goodbye, takes his briefcase and his lunch, and goes to work. He remembers their warmth as he waits for the bus. He knows they will be waiting for him when he returns, each with a hug and a kiss for him, and their smiles will break down the clouds just as they always do, and he will be happy.

      He spends his lunch hours pacing the roof, begging himself not to let himself fall.

      Melissandra's Last Day

      Challenge #1: write a steampunk story.

      Melissandra checked her watch again, then snapped it shut and pocketed it with a sigh. She had seven minutes left to wait: not long, but enough to make the waiting hurt. She was nervous enough already.

      She resumed pacing the platform. She was too wound-up to sit, and having to dodge the milling crowd helped to take her mind off the journey.

      Flowers, miss?

      A greasy-looking man with a goatee and velvet top hat was thrusting a bouquet of roses at her face. Melissandra turned pointedly away, but passers-by were blocking her path, and the man danced around back in front of her. You won't find flowers like this on the moon, miss. I've got red roses, orange roses, yellow roses, tulips, pansies, geraniums...

      No, thank you. Melissandra tried again to turn past him, but the man was in her way. The moon is famed for its gardens, she told him with a polite smile.

      "White flowers, glowing flowers, yes

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