My short story “The Candy Aisle” appears in Citywide Lunch today! Keep reading at: https://citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-candy-aisle-by-joanne-merriam/
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My short story “The Candy Aisle” appears in Citywide Lunch today! Keep reading at: https://citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-candy-aisle-by-joanne-merriam/
#shortfiction #shortstory #citywidelunch #fiction #mosquitoes

“The year is 3026. An expedition from the Neo-Tokyo Educational Expedition Taskforce (NEET), has identified a thumbdrive containing a fragment of ScytheRider's "Silver Resistance" inside a Terminal Capitalism-era hospital queue execution site dating to approximately 1,000 years ago.”
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If you expected a new #story from me today - congratulations, you were right!
I hope you enjoy the read, share it widely, and tell me if you liked it. (writers will endure a lot of praise if need be!) Any help finding my #readers is very much appreciated.
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https://ko-fi.com/post/Faith-and-Honor--fantasy-flash-fiction-E1E31Y06LG

So here's #Spring with exclusive #ShortStories from Diana Evans, Takiguchi Yūshō, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, Bruna Martini, Holly Edwards and Joel Cox, plus Lucy Caldwell on the long and short of #ShortFiction
Check them all out at https://fictionable.world
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"I have to say no."
"No? Why?"
"Because it's not a good idea"
"But... But.. "
"Do you understand this person?"
An image floats up as the man standing before him suddenly looks empty and haunted.
"Or this person?"
Another image floats up and the man screams.
"Do you see now, why wanting to be fully understood is a bad idea?"
Gasping for breath and pulling himself upright, drying tears; the man looked at the genie.
"Ok, ok... How about just making me rich?"
"Done!"