Long Shadow (Flash Fiction) by Olga Godim : Paper mage Monette was called by Jane, John’s wife. The morning after John’s birthday party Jane’s house was filled up by worms. Monette cast her spell and rescued the house, Jane and John.
Thoughts on a Dying Evening (Poetry) by Denis Covey :
A view of long shadow under setting
sun unfolded like an impressionist painting. The urge for light and futile head
smashing on shadow of continuing pandemic rolled like tear drops along the cheek.
Sad and satisfying.
SHADOWS (Poetry) by Yolanda Renée :
Hate is a shadow of love, when words
of beloved ones wraps in companionship of piercing pain, pushes to lonely
helplessness and eviscerate ones soulfulness of life leaving a shadow of
liveliness.
Breath and Shadow (Non-fiction) by Nilanjana
Bose : Light, shades and shadows trick mind,
the visual sense. Humans, all along history, captured this visual sense in art.
Oriental and occidental art captured lights and shadow in different extent.
Western art used shadows more intensely. Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings moved
from shadows to bright colors while the artist’s mind followed a reverse
direction.
Monster (Flash Fiction) by L G
Keltner : Laura the seven year old was playing
with her shadow while the sun was setting, casting long shadows on tiny
objects. Yet a return journey to one’s home help to turn back on one’s own
monstrous long shadow.
Kirtinagar – the City of Deeds (Flash Fiction) by Sanhita
Mukherjee : Ruh has a secret. She is in conflict
with her mother and ancestors. Yet she carries on with the family under the
long shadow of her secret.
TheLynching (Flash Fiction) by C. Lee McKenzie : Bart was a protective father. He sought
revenge on violator of her daughter Nell. Yet, he chose to forget the evening when
he was out for head hunting.
Me and My Shadow (Poetry) by Elephant’s Child : A shadow always moves ahead, lighter, freer, and eluding the person whom it belong.
CAST A LONG SHADOW (Flash Fiction) by Kalpana :
A wrestler Hindu priest of Ayodhya
dreamt of Shri Ram narrating about his birthplace. The pious priest fancied a
temple at the very birthplace of Shri Ram. He appealed to the District
Magistrate. But the District Magistrate declined the priest’s proposal to
prevent riots. The priest came up with a plan for manipulating tolerance of
liberal egalitarian society.
The Banker (Poetry) by Susan Rouchard :
A moonlit night. Benches, streets and
other objects under long shadow. A man in long coat, a whore, a cat and Mr.
Hacklebaum. The death waited and watched for the right opportunity.
Long Shadow (Flash Fiction) by Jemima
Pett : Bobby spent his lockdown sunny days
digging sand pit in garden, or climbing trees. His sister annoyed him in
countless tormenting ways. Yet her mother asked him to be more involved with
his sister. Also, long shadows spoke to him about sad scary dangerous matters
of life unfolding truth about how his father died.
Long Shadow (Flash Fiction) by Sally :
Fred was a fireman living alone at his
workplace endangering his life every now and then, amidst great physical
discomfort of heat, cold, lack of running water, proper bed. His great-great
grandson Ryan is a fireman, too. But his work is much easier, and his world is
much more comfortable.
The Long Shadow (Flash Fiction) by Pat Garcia :
Jamie was ready for presenting a
strategic plan in the field of space aeronautics. Yet she noticed a long shadow
beside her own. The shadow belonged to a man and Jamie did not find him creepy.
At the end of the day, the mystery of the man and his shadow were unraveled.
Blades of Grass (Flash Fiction) by Jemi
Fraser : Toya missed her Granny. She tried to make duck
calls by blades of grasses. She failed. The heap of rolled blades was full of
her memories with Granny. She carefully picked them all and moved on.
Choices (Flash Fiction) by Dixie J.
Jarchow : A witch her cat and a young girl. The
girl wanted the witch to kill someone. Instead, the witch made some
transformations and solved the girl’s problem. Yet the witch did not overwhelm
the girl with mastery of witchcraft and made the girl feel responsible for her
decisions.
Long Shadow (Non-fiction) by Rebecca
Douglass : Life and loss of life cast long
shadows on everyone related to a life. Often those shadows seem to be outcomes
of decisions. Yet, life, in general, goes on under two different kinds of long
shadows, of life, of loss of life.
The Deserted Railway Station (Flash Fiction) by Bernadette
Braganza : A railway station without spec
of any creature under setting sun. A man arrived there and dropped a heavy bag.
Then he started digging. Suddenly a shadow appeared by him. Presently, there
rests relic of what happened then.
A Royal Request (Flash Fiction) by Christopher Scott : Five years after the previous episode
took place, the protagonist returned to England. Wary of world travel,
intending to settle in the native land, yet eluding the gallows and enjoying
life, his return was a response to the Royal Request. This time he acted to
destroy monsters along with their progeny.
On with the show! (Continuation of The Yadira Chronicle)
by Naught Netherworld Press :
King Qweh was being criticized by
Yadira. From interdimensional spaces, some people were eavesdropping. Qweh’s
sycophants were held hostage by Nyarlathotep, Yadira’s father. These people
were particularly curious about the royal opinion on Gerry.
LONG SHADOW (Flash Fiction) by Sonia Dogra : In Rumsu, a village in Himachal, on
verdant valleys surrounded by mighty mountains of the Himalayas, lived a mother
deserted by her children. Her children left her like feather shed by jujurana
(Western Tragopan). The father of the children wished to make money from the
feathers. Mother tried to return it to the bird so that her children would
return to her.
Untitled (Continuation of Lisa and Pierce’s
Story) by D M Hanton : Lisa met Pierce by the wall on the
street. They were transported to the hospital. Then the girl who called the
police on Pierce appeared and things went weirder.
Untitled (Non-fiction) by Jamie of Uniquely
maladjusted but fun : Statistics about relationship between abortion
and crime. That too, in specific types of crime. Mention of Levitt and Dubner’s
one and half -decade old earth-shaking book Freakonomics and argument about whether
there should be options of abortion and birth control. There are reminiscences
of a visit to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
A Growing Flame (Poetry) by Toinette Thomas :
A moan from under shadows of Monsters.
A groan against proud oppressors. A promise of revolution brewing by the corner.
Sound of footsteps of gathering mass.
Untiltled (Poetry) by Karen Sather :
Sunshine and shadows goes hand in
glove. One can attempt an escape form one’s own shadow and realize the futility
of the endeavor and clings to the shadow.
With You I Could Steal Horses (Flash Fiction) by Carol Stolz : An epistolary fiction about sharing
lives with loved ones and keeping secret guarded from them. The long shadow of
secret and keeping something that way from loved ones affects relationships.
Yet sharing such secrets can shatter shared love and lives, too. It is about maintaining
the delicate balance.
Custody Chain CHAPTER FOUR – UMBRAGE by Roland Clarke : Urien went back to home from hospital. Tesni was there with him. Sparkle and Kama along with their uniformed colleagues stayed on vigil for the intruder to return. They already knew that the intruder masked the surveillance system. However, they succeeded in catching the intruder. Urein’s secrets were partially unearthed.
