Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 1

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A full menu of speculative fiction: aliens, ghosts, portals, humor, horror, suspense, and serious classic sci-fi.

Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 1 is a collection of sixteen flash fiction and short stories in several subgenres of speculative fiction. The collection includes aliens and ghosts, portals through time and space, plenty of humor, a bit of horror and suspense, and some serious classic sci-fi.

The first book in the Flashing Lights: Short and Weird series, which takes you on a mission to explore the breadth of speculative short fiction. Each story is preceded by a content rating (G, PG, PG-13) and its genre tags. And each is followed by an About section, describing the story’s prompt, inspiration, homages, and the occasional Easter egg.

You can use the index by story type and genre to jump to the stories that interest you most, but you are safe exploring from beginning to end. You may discover a genre you didn’t know you liked.

The collection also includes six “bonus” ten-word stories with a short commentary about each and a secret bonus short work.

Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 1 is available as an eBook, paperback, and audiobook. The eBook is also available on Kindle Unlimited.

(Design by Ross Flaven. Cover images by Joeprachatree/shutterstock.com, Selin Serhii/shutterstock.com, ktsdesign/shutterstock.com, and iurii/shutterstock.com).

The Stories

Covered Dishes: Date With an Alien

PG: Aliens, Humorous, Mainstream, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Hanky-Panky: Dirty Laundry

PG: Ghosts, Mainstream, Mystery

The Dragon of Dalhart: A Dustbowl Tale

G: Folktale, Historical, Serious, YA

Freak Magnet: Strange Attraction

PG: Aliens, Humorous, Mainstream, Sci-Fi

Souls at Sea: Training Voyage

PG: Aliens, Ghosts, Historical, Humorous, Sci-Fi

Shannon’s Eleven: The Cold Get Hot

PG: Ghosts, Humorous, Mainstream

Christmas Angel: Leaning Into Christmas

G: Holiday, Humorous, Mainstream, YA

Rainbow Catcher: Capture the Moment

PG: Mainstream, Portal, Sci-Fi, YA

Dead Man’s Hand: The Only Good Cheat is a Dead Cheat

PG: Ghosts, Historical, Humorous, Western

Fall Colors: Death is Beautiful

PG-13: Horror/Suspense, Humorous, Mainstream, Mystery, Seasonal

You’re Fired: Combustion Claim

PG: Humorous, Mainstream, Sci-Fi

Eccentric Orbit: Fragile Cargo

PG: Aliens, Humorous, Mainstream, Sci-Fi

Full Disclosure: For Sale: Haunted House

PG: Ghosts, Humorous, Mainstream

Derelict in Space: Suspicious Survey

PG: Aliens, Ghosts, Humorous, Sci-Fi

Alien Factory: Rite of Ascension

PG: Aliens, Sci-Fi, Serious, YA

Mending Time: A Line to the Past

PG: Ghost, Historical, Holiday, Mainstream, Mystery, Portal

Bonus: Six Ten-Word Stories

Yep, stories in only ten words.

Secret Bonus

It wouldn’t be a secret if I told you what it is.

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