Hot Flashes

Hot Flashes are tiny little stories–fireflies for your mind–usually of no more than 50 words, including the titles. Every month, I’ll post a new one. Scroll past the blah-blah to see this year’s previous stories.

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May HOT FLASH

maypole

Gran considers my question as she spins.

“Children can’t dance around the Maypole because it makes you with child. Folks dance, go off, and next you know–babies!”

Gran knows everything. But sometimes she laughs for no reason.

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Each year’s Hot Flashes–between 2002 and 2007, at any rate–has a Cafe Press store. Visit the Shop link on this web site to find out more.

MA’s Monthly Hot Flashes: 2002-2009 are…is…now available in electronic formats–for Kindle (text-to-speech enabled) at Amazon and in many other formats, including text and .rtf at Smashwords, as a Nook book and at iTunes. Price = $0.99.

Review by:  donna crow  on May. 21, 2010

Marian Allen’s Hot Flashes are a delight. A complete short story in just a few lines: a conversation, a sketch of a scene or a character and then, the stinger in the tail. (tale?)

Flash fiction is to a short story what Haiku is to epic poetry.

Donna Fletcher Crow
author of The Monastery Murder Series

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Want to give the folks behind you in line something to do? Visit the store to put a year’s worth of MA’s Hot Flashes on the back of your shirt! Also available on a tote bag, a messenger bag, an apron and a mousepad. Years 2003 through 2007 are done and the others will follow, if interest is expressed.

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January

New Leaf

We’re going to start fresh. He deleted his lawyer’s number.

I deleted Mr. X’s.

Funny that they call it a “kill fee” when you tell them NOT to.

February

Answering Machine

I’m not here to answer your call right now.

Leave your name and number and, if you’re a psychic, I’ll get back to you.

March

Bucket List

He always wanted to go paragliding so, for his birthday, I took him up a cliff and off he went!

Some say I should have let him put on his gear before I pushed him.

April

Dead End

An ax, a chainsaw, an hour’s work and a good clean-up afterwards, red washing down the drain.

“That,” he says, “is how you get a cedar stump out of clay.”

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Here are previous years’ collections.

Flashbacks for 2002

Flashbacks for 2003

Flashbacks for 2004

Flashbacks for 2005

Flashbacks for 2006

Flashbacks for 2007

Flashbacks for 2008

Flashbacks for 2009

Flashbacks for 2010

Flashbacks for 2011