(Recommended Reads) "The Balrog Looms" by John Wiswell

Joel and Elijah knew they were in trouble even before they left for the bathroom. New kids can sense trouble like that. There’s being an awkward new kid at an empty table, and then there’s being an awkward new kid at an empty table with your brother while all the boys at all the surrounding tables stared and glared at your kippah...

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5 Second Fiction Seven Hundred and Ten

Christmas was his favorite time of the year to go door to door telling kids there was no Santa Claus.

5 Second Fiction Seven Hundred and Nine

He promised her he would wait for her until she came back; he didn't promise her he would wait alone.

(Recommended Reads) "Tickets, Please" by J. Dane Tyler

The wheels clattering over the track junction woke him from a restless sleep.

He blinked into the strange light. For a moment he couldn’t find the source of the blue-white glow, but gave it no further thought when he couldn’t recall getting on a train in the first place. He slid upright in the uncomfortable vinyl seat, and rubbed his eyes.

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(Recommended Reads) "Timmy" by Raven Blackbirdsong

“Why’d you do it?” asked the police officer.

“Because he didn’t do what I asked him to,” replied the little girl holding a black puppy in her arms...


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5 Second Fiction Seven Hundred and Eight

It wasn't that he was a bad comedian, he just needed the vegetables.

5 Second Fiction Seven Hundred and Seven

The waters of the grotto in the Playboy Mansion spawned the first Shoggoth in 10,000 years- and it had herpies.