I fancied to write blurbs for the stories of Urban Nightmare season of Write... Edit... Publish... [WEP] Flash Fiction challenges. But as nightmare continued I could not come up with the blurbs in time. Yet I have written. :)
GROUND ZERO (Flash Fiction) by Denise Covey: A city by a
nuclear spillage site. It turned empty later. It was where experiments
conducted on human endurance to radioactivity.
Lethal Weapons (Flash
Fiction) by Yolanda Renée: An abusive marriage. Mysterious friends.
Mysterious death of an abusive husband and later his wife. All linked to a deep
instinctive cruelty.
My Happy Home (Flash
Fiction) by Yolanda
Renée: A woman’s husband cheated on her. She punished her husband. But she
prevented her family from an evitable break up. Instead she gave her family an
opportunity of staying together for ever.
Write … Edit … Publish … Bloghop/IWSG hop:Urban Nightmare … (non-Fiction) by Hilary Melton-Butcher: Worries
about ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reminiscence of Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of
Reason cannot Produce Monsters and promise of endurance to see
beautiful future.
Urban Nightmare (Flash
Fiction) by Olga Godim: A suffocated neighborhood. A toddler suffering
from Asthma and his desperate mother. All relived by a pro bono spell of
Monnet.
Out of Mind (Flash
Fiction) by Sanhita Mukherjee: A lonely information technology
worker in Amphan hit evening of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic lost her life
to urban mismanagement.
Fangsto Mars (Flash
Fiction) by J. Lenni Dorner: A prisoner escaped death. A president
was killed by a vampire aide. The next in line was about to succumb to another
blood sucking vampire but was saved by democratic governmental procedures.
Pigeon.Panic. Pandemic. (Non-fiction)
by Nilanjana Bose: A sub-human avian, like humans, is driven by urge
of returning home. Human beings built up cities after agriculture and art. Art
preceded agriculture. Yet genius Vincent Van Gogh moved to urban cityscape,
Paris and succumbed to nightmares.
Inthe Streets (Poetry)
by L. G Keltner: The world has seen death and destructions, overcome
prophesied dates of apocalypses. Present trial of time, too, will pass if
goodwill gathers to fight all ongoing human ailments.
Urban Nightmare (Flash
Fiction) by Sonia Dogra: Gossamer was a game development company.
All its products revolve around urban nightmare. The owner of the company was
deemed expert on urban nightmare by national leadership and was invited in a
meeting.
The Widow (Flash
Fiction) by Shannon Lawrence: Kasey coaxed Milo to a meeting at
Milo’s den, guarded by is men. Would Kasey succeed in avenging her husband’s
murder and staying alive afterwards? How? That’s the story’s journey.
Urban Nightmare (Flash
Fiction) by Jemima Pett: Animal instinct of survival, as individual,
as race, as family, as gene pool, as parent during times of scares resources
and heightened struggle – intraspecies and interspecies.
The Kidnapping (Flash
Fiction) by Pat Garcia: Zelda and Beno responded to a scream and sob,
amidst disappearance of half a dozen female of different age from their
neighborhood. Beno had his suspicions and he worked on it.
Blame (Flash Fiction) by Sally:
A rat, his explorations in time of scarcity and its capture by a rat catcher,
then demise in a laboratory. Years later the rat catcher confessed to progeny
that that the rats were killed for nothing.
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COULDN’T REACH THE SITE by Kalpana
Opting out (Flash Fiction)
by Susan Baury Rouchard: New York City, hustling, bustling, regular
chaotic life and loss of it. In the climax it reaches destruction of ultimate
urban fad in cellu lar technology.
Driving Home (Non-fiction)
by Toi Thomas: A poetic compilation of US mainstream media narrative
about situation of African American teenagers, men and occasionally women,
including Mexican women and other Latinas.
Remember the Words (Poetry)
by Jemi Fraser: A countdown to home. Like instructions to organs, hiding
in between blocks like shadow. Yet facing the question of identifying oneself.
West Holpry (A chapter
from The Yadira Chronicles) by
Naught Netherland Press: Serab was captured for petty theft. He was
driven towards the prison by King Qweh. Onlookers were jabbering about fate of
the captive and power of the captivator. Serab reminisced his best friend.
An Urban Nightmare (Poetry)
by Karuna: A Unicorn, a king and folks all ends in basic moral questions of
eternity.
Her Urban Nightmare (Poetry)
by Carole Stolz: She escaped violence when she was fourteen and
ended up in violence and rape by men even after half a decade.
An urban Nightmare (Flash
Fiction) by Cindi
Summerlin: Karl was losing
weight. He was suffering from parasomnia. There were physical changes. Those
changes confused him. Those change lead him to transformation.
Custody
Chain CHAPTER THREE –
CRYPTOGRAPH by Roland Clarke: Kama and Sparkle were
interviewing Urien. It revealed Csilla’s escape from post-Soviet Hungary and
Tesni’s identity. It left a hint about motive of Urien’s attacker, though it
eluded clues about identity of the attacker. Also, it mnemonics of Sparkle.
Sally's
Urban Nightmare (Flash
Fiction) by Jamie: A whimsy daughter keeps her mother always on her
toes. The daughter fells climbing a dresser, the mother gets scolded for not
watching the daughter carefully. The mother prepares food for her recuperating
daughter, the daughter escapes mother’s apartment.
URBAN HORROR (Flash Fiction) by Dixie
Jarchow: Two siblings in a deserted house with their mother in their life
deserted by father met unknown souls in neighboring cemetery. A soul tried to
harm, the other helped recover.
Untitled
(Continuation of Lisa and Pierce’s Story) by D M Hanton: The sneeze irked Lisa. She
made Pierce leave. Hallucinated Pierce went through weird series of events
where impersonated a king surrounded by enemies who were in real world were
helpful passerby and police.
Man
or Monster? (Flash
Fiction) by Christopher Scott: An interesting encounter between a policeman
and a serial killer where the serial killer quenches thirst of killing some paranormal
creature with the help of the policeman.
Urban Nightmare? (Flash Fiction) by
Helen Mathey-Horn: Chuck met some time travelers in his well monitored,
tight scheduled, systematically controlled cubiclized workplace. He fed them
what he was about to feed his friends. They returned in gratitude something which
made Chuck excited. Yet he used this excitement only to enhance performance of
his ongoing project.
