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Welcome to the finale of Flash August Fiction . This is actually observational prose, but I make the rules around here. Thanks for reading, listening, sharing, liking, and sharing. 31 brand-new stories and podcasts in 31 days . Later today there will be a live reading in my Discord Channel . In the next few days I’ll be recording new intros and send-offs, uploading live reads from my Sunday Discor...

This is so corny that it’s corny. It’s OK, sometimes absurd is absurd. And short is short. ONE DAY LEFT OF 31 STORIES AND PODCASTS IN 31 DAYS. What I like to call Flash August Fiction . Here is a link for my discord if you would like to attend a live reading on any Sunday: https://discord.gg/eQ9HKzgvus . Thanks for sharing and liking and the nice conversations. This little storytelling podcast has...

2 Days Left in Flash August Fiction | Ease Into the Week, Live Longer | It’s Friday, but this is a Monday story. The simple pleasures on the way to work at 5AM is what makes it bearable. Thanks for reading, listening, sharing, liking, and sharing. I’m glad you are here, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The simple pleasures on the way to work at 5AM is what makes it bearable, especially Mon...

Counting down to the last day of the marathon. 3 After today. Thanks for your participation in sharing, restacking and liking. There are people who will do anything for money, and there are people who hire them. They really do believe in their own self-aggrandizement and presumption of authority to violate you. It’s mental illness, and it comes up in some of my other stories, like Mitchell’s Missi...

It’s another Chronicle of the Last Gas Station today. Some thinking about meditation, and otherwise energy related things. Thanks for the sharing and the liking. I wish I could turn the likes I’m getting on Substack into shares. Hint hint. It wouldn’t bother me at all if you see my posts on X and Substack and not only liked them, but also shared them. That would be OK with me. You have my permissi...

In this Flash Fiction Story, I use the circumstance and character from another story to continue the narrative and the business related conversation. 5 More days of Flash August Fiction. Harry feels like the breaking weather has saved his life. There has been excessive heat for a week, and it’s really killing his chances to stay on top of his work. On the one hand, the grass and all the plants he...

This is a diminutive tome, and it’s somewhat momentous to me because It required no spelling or grammar changes. That’s neat. Seven more days of Flash August Fiction. I’m lengthening my strides and thinking I’ll go in head first. If you have missed a few stories, go on back and check a couple out. They’re short. There are a thousand things to be thankful for on Gladsome Hill. It’s a place where pe...

We are in the home stretch. Just a week remains of Flash August Fiction. Wow. So close. Thanks for the shares and the cares and the likes and the lifts. It’s an odd little podcast, but it will catch on. “Can you think of another item you would want to find, if you found a time capsule? What would be a cool thing to find in the future? Go ahead and call some out.” The Teacher, Mrs. Nyce asked the k...

It’s hard to tell, sometimes, who is who and what is what around here. Do people impersonate humans? Have a cooled out Day 22 of Flash August Fiction, 2025. ape: verb, as in mimic Strongest matches: emulate , imitate . Strong matches: affect , caricature , copy , counterfeit , ditto , do , echo , impersonate , mirror , mock , parody , parrot , travesty . Misery is joy. None can be happy until they...

I’ve been feeling pretty prosey lately. Wrote a 900+ word story yesterday, but today it’s barely 200 words. That’s OK, I’ll allow it. I can do that. I released yesterday’s story pretty late because I was busy all day. So you might go check that out if you missed it. Resting on a quaggy patch of purslane, a vibrant puddle of butterflies disperse in beautiful blue splashes. This is one of Greg’s fav...

Sometimes these Flash Fiction stories become something I like to keep going. Last time, we left Uncle Plasma riding atop a truck where the two occupants are up to something. Here is the initial Uncle Plasma story . Here is Part 2 . I want to encourage other creative writers to experiment with this Flash Fiction method. Uncle Plasma, obscured by the bent light around him, rides the top of the truck...

Prose for Flash August Fiction. Day 19. What an amazing morning where I am, currently. I want to thank you for connecting with me here. As an aside, before the story, I want to share this article with you. It adds scientific credence to how cool your mind and your brain are. → Study Reveals Universal Pattern Brain Wave Frequencies . You are really something. The tall, hay grass was waving gently i...

Hungry Henry and Rotund Ronald return in Flash August Fiction this month, and they go to the movies! There are so many flavors at the movies! Here are all the links to the previous Henry and Ronald stories. The Cheeseguard , The Stoic s, Of Mice and Mushrooms , Of Mice: Live Reading (separate readings of all the above stories) Hungry Henry and Rotund Ronald have braved their way across a hot parki...

I like Uncle Plasma. I had to see where this story is taking me. Here's the first one . That’s how this is. We are all the way past Parts 1 and 2 of the halfway mark of Flash August Fiction . Now this is Part 2 of a new thing, Uncle Plasma. Thanks for reading, listening, sharing, restacking, and all the things. Arriving at the gas station, Pete eyes a hot dog special. “I swear these people are try...

A lot of animal stories again this month. Welcome to the second half of the halfway point of Flash August Fiction . It’s all downhill from here. Thanks for your interest, your reading, your listening, your sharing and restacking. https://x.com/HerschSterling Three crows are chatting on an electric line overlooking a parking lot at a declining family owned grocery store. “My dad used to tell me abo...

Today and tomorrow are both the halfway point of Flash August Fiction , because the month has an odd number of days. Welcome to the first half of the halfway point of my Instant Fiction Marathon. 31 brand-new stories and podcasts in 31 days. DISCIPLINE, the FUN kind. You can find me at probably any podcast app. Margie couldn’t figure out why the sky seemed peculiar. There was something about it. W...

I love this time of the month of my marathons. Right in the middle is where things cruise, and a lot of stuff is getting loosened up. It’s wild where stories come from. Random memories, and snippets of anecdotes. I like it. Thanks for your interest in Flash August Fiction. If you have not seen it, I really like yesterday’s story called The Torrent. I strongly suggest it. You want to know what’s wi...

When the levee breaks. Right? Sometimes things have to get to a certain point, and then it all just gives. Thanks for your interest. This one is really, very short. The sky had been teasing rain for a week There had been some rain during the season, but it’s never enough. Evening would build cloud cover, there would be heat lightning, some thunder, a few sprinkles. Could this finally be the storm...

I’m having fun, things are grooving along for my Instant Fiction Marathon that I call Flash August Fiction. Thanks for the reading, and the listening, and the sharing, and the liking, and believe it or not, this weird little niche podcast is growing, slowly but surely. I mean, I have stories about everything, so you’re bound to like something I write. You may as well just subscribe and deal with i...

I think I was having fun with alliteration and descriptive language, and probably craving some ice cream. Thanks for checking out this less than 6 minute story on my Flash Fiction marathon that I call Flash August Fiction. I’m sorry, not sorry, if I made you hungry. Marly is having a nice day in the park. She has a spot on a bench, the temperature is comfortable, and she has her knitting bag. Firs...

This is the live reading from Sunday’s Easytopian Discord . 4 stories from earlier in the week and Sunday. I write an instant fiction, or flash fiction story every day and podcast it. they take 5-7 minutes to listen to. Join me on Sunday to read and listen. DM me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit commercialhersche...

I recorded this during my Live Reading Show on Sunday . I included links to the other stores where the scene is in a fictional town called Buckway. VOTE HARDER Aug 10, ‘25 Jimmy Jack George has been campaigning for three months, he has it all figured out. He knows what’s on the people’s minds. He has market analysts and AI combing the people’s communications through all their technology, and he ha...

Thanks for being here on Day 9 of Flash August Fiction . The writing is kind of automatic, and it seems like the stories are improving. Getting into the groove a little. It was cool seeing Sirius in the sky this morning, but it was gone before the sun came around. We are in the dog days now. If anyone doesn’t know. Each day I wake up and begin writing without a premise or a story in mind, and see...

Pretty fun time this morning. Yesterday was fun, too. I had been reading up on the astronomical dog days, and the dog star, because today is the day that the central sun, Sirius, rises before the sun and is visible as such in some locations. I could always see it when I lived in the Great Lakes region, but here in the Southwest, I guess not. Anyway, that’s probably why the first word that came to...

I think I wrote a story about dogs for the Dog Star. Because it is the dog day of Summer, in case you didn’t know. Wow. That’s Sirius. (I’m sorry). Do you see how these Jungian methods for writing, like Flash Fiction, kind of evoke things? Pretty weird. And fun. Day 7 of Flash August Fiction (look into it) . I’m releasing this at a different time of day, just to see what it does in terms of downlo...