So, what is this all about?
Every week, I shake up some digital names in a digital hat (by which I mean I run a very crude C# first name/last name randomizer) and write a quick flash fiction tale about the names that inspire some image or concept in my head.
!!! Shadows & Sorcery is NOT written, prompted or “assisted” with or by AI/LLMs in any way, shape, or form, and never will be !!!
Anyway, what’s flash fiction?
It’s also called microfiction, or vignettes, dribbles, drabbles, and more. Short short tales commonly a thousand words and under (I have absolutely broken this rule here before, but this is my publication damn it).
Flash fiction can take all kinds of forms and have all kinds of purposes. Here, some stories are written like accounts or folktales, some like broad historical overviews, some are written as coming in on a pivotal scenes of a larger story, and some are just joining a weird character or two for a few minutes. Each one can be short and concise or they can linger on their subject, they can be broad in scope or specific, but each one is intended to focus on single clear concept or image. Each entry is intended as a glimpse into a far off place, a quick walk through a strange new world, packed with detail and atmosphere. And nearly every story is its own world, though I do have a few places and characters I like returning to.
The aim of all this is engagement: I want to engage your imagination with hints and implications, get you thinking, wondering, maybe even writing yourself, all packaged in accessible but exciting entertainment. I want to to share my experience of reading material and getting that “ooh damn that’s cool” moment that gets your brain buzzing.
Why subscribe?
Because it’s cool
It’s all the dark fantasy you love, just in a different form. Flash fiction demands a different kind of engagement and a different mindset, it challenges the reader in a different way to more traditional or popular fiction. You have to build with the bare but tantalizing blocks I give you. Guaranteed, everyone has a unique version of these worlds in their heads. Why take five minutes and make your own?
Also there’s several hundred of these things now, that’s a TON of reading.
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