“Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky . . . ”
— John Noble Wilford, Mars Beckons
Category: Fiction
Flash Fiction: Lunch Date
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
— Eva Gabor
Flash Fiction: Tug-of-War
“What strange creatures brothers are!”
— Jane Austen
Short Story: A Day in the Life (Memento Mori)
“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow
Flash Fiction: Unusual
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Flash Fiction: Sanctuary (Memento Mori)
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
Short Story: Slumber Party
Mrs. Weasley: Promise me you’ll look after yourself . . . stay out of trouble . . .
Harry Potter: I always do, Mrs. Weasley. I like a quiet life, you know me.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Flash Fiction: The Fair
“I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'”
— Buzz Aldrin
Flash Fiction: The Lab
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Short Story: Siblings
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
