Flash Fiction

Less than 1,000 words.

The Second Ring

The room was quiet, the only light a sliver of moon slicing through the curtains, pooling like milk across the floorboards. No voices, no street noise. No reason for someone to be at the door.

A Special Place in Hell

A group of twenty recently dead humans staggered down the stairs and shambled past. Their faces twisted into masks of horror and pain. Their feet blistered on the oven-hot floor. Their hair and clothes burst into flame. Their screams barely added to the cacophony of a billion tortured souls.