Crossed Signals
It was only after Helena was mugged by a
Boris Becker lookalike below a billboard for Lufthansa Airlines that she began
seeing the signs - a German couple chatting behind her in the queue; the local
beer festival to ‘rival Oktoberfest’; BMWs on every road and the special offer on
frankfurters in the supermarket. When a bus paused outside her office window
advertising a show about Einstein, Helena decided fate was telling her to go to
Germany.
When the bus smashed into her as she
crossed the road outside Munich Airport, her final thought was, ‘Perhaps I read
the signs wrong.’
M
W Brown is a writer of speculative fiction and thrillers but will happily
branch out into other areas depending on mood and inspiration. An annoyingly temperamental phone charger inspired the
first swoop into sci-fi and produced 'Run'( published in The Collapsar
Directive), and a satnav and curious child prompted the writing of 'Portraits
in Flesh', a novel-length thriller with a supernatural twist that is currently
looking for a home.
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Short Fiction
Mia, I liked this very much. Thank you. I could never write this short I don't think.
ReplyDeleteThank you, so happy you liked it. It is a challenge to fit a story into just 100 words, but fun to do too.
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