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5/10/2015

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​Two new urban fantasy micro-fiction tales today – Dances Moves by S. Kay and A Surprise Friend by Nicola Wells...


Dance Moves
by S. Kay


Black boots scuff the EDM dance floor while robot videos generate leads. Dancers keep pausing to buy products on their phones.

* S. Kay is a queer Canadian writing one tweet at a time. Her work has appeared in Nanoism,7x20, the EEEL, Monkeybicycle and more. Her debut book RELIANT is out this Fall from tNY.Press.



A Surprise Friend
by Nicola Wells


He walked slowly, moving silently across the wooden floors in the hall, streetlight spilling in the living room window showing him the way through the dark. 

For months he watched her, following her home from work, first in his rusty Renault Clio, and then in the Mazda he borrowed from the hire company in town when he began to worry she noticed. He watched her come and go to the gym. She liked to swim in the morning, doing laps in the glass-windowed pool; sometimes an early fitness class too. He wanted to be everywhere with her, the mall, outside her mother’s house, sitting three tables away that time she went to the bar with some girlfriends. He drew a slow breath as he reached the top of the staircase, breathing her in, a heady mixture of roses and vanilla. The door to her shadowy room was open an inch, just like the last time he had visited, the time when she wasn’t around. 

The rope he was holding felt heavy. She would be excited by his visit, he could tell. After all, he knew her. They were friends. 

* Nicola Wells lives in Sussex, UK where she spends her time working, and giving in to her addiction for micro and flash fiction.
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