Chapter 1 (prompt – NEST) The novices were as prickly as their newly shorn heads. The scabs forming on their scalps, echoed those on their broken hearts. Isolated in the misery of memory, silent tears welled as six faces searched the failing light. While mourning doves cooed under the eaves, and the chapel bells sounded […]
SC Novella in Flash
By Sharon Collins Chapter1 – (prompt – FLESH) Standing on the edge of Judgement, for that is what this cliff-edge is called, her prehensile toes curl over the rim. Her body fights exhaustion while her brain, uncomfortably large in its sloping brain-case, fights frustration. For countless generations this cliff-edge has been where guilt is decided […]
Atlantis Lost – A Novella in Flash (AKA FlashNovel) By Sharon Collins Chapter 1 (Prompt – NIGHTMARE) “Awake!” commanded the voice that never slept even when the others did.. “Awake! Awake! Awake!” It shouted dragging all the other voices into consciousness . Immediately they took up the clamor, “Your prophecies are true. To your duty, […]