Flash Fiction

Spores

‘The forests have unleashed a tempest, and spores now dance on the wind.’ — Dr João Miguel Gonçalves. Mycologist. For any first-time visitor to the sprawling complex of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control on Bull Street, Columbia, finding the whereabouts of Doctor Aline Silva could prove as

Elisheva Bennet, Sylph

Author’s Note: The following piece of flash fiction is my re-imagination of a small part of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice (taken from Volume II, Chapter IX, pages 136-138 from the 2004 Oxford World’s Classics edition).[1] In my story, Elisheva Bennet signifies the delightfully

Gerechtigkeit ist blind

Gerechtigkeit ist blind (Justice is blind) Author’s Note: My inspiration for this piece came from a long-held, fond memory of an episode from The Twilight Zone, featuring the American actor Burgess Meredith, who died in 1997 aged 89—described one of the most accomplished and virtuosic actors of the