PROMPT TWO
The Light Bringer
by Elizabeth McKinney
“All right,” John says, “you know the rules. One bulb per family, even if they try to coerce you into giving them more. We can’t afford to give out two or three lightbulbs to every person that asks for them. Second, remember your routes and don’t overlap. That throws the entire system ...
In the Dark
by Jake Sauppe
The candle flickered to life in the cold, cement room with a loud hiss. Dan lowered his lighter into his coat pocket and leaned to inspect the flame before wrapping calloused fingers around the base of the candle stick.
Dan carefully spun the light to the captive seated in the old ...
MILLY
by Marijke Fulton
There are many things I should never have said, but it is too late, for I have said them. Words seem to flow like honey from its dripper, slow and languid, yet somehow fast in a great contradiction, falling to the floor without anything to stop it, or to put it all back and seal away the jar ....
Blackout Run
by Susannah Martin
I couldn’t see. Dear God, I couldn’t see.
“Take cover!” I shouted ahead of me.
My partner, Isaiah, bolted out in front as green laser blasts exploded over our shoulders. I hit the deck and felt my way over to the last solid object I’d seen: a wooden crate ...