June 2025 Flash Fiction Winner: Dark
Darkest Destiny
by A.C. Perri
Like a naughty spoilt child not knowing cruel jokes hurt, a bookcase once belonging to the ship’s feisty captain stands alone, vacant, but three photos put there by Charles, Second-Officer, wore a grimace as dark as death.
The middle shelf shows a picture of a woman, eyes shining like blue gems fished fresh out of the Atlantic, she’s holding tightly to a dog named Lady; two other pictures is of Lady wearing a diamond heart-shaped collar, a boarding card held in gloved-hands, reads…
Granted to Come Aboard
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WHITE STAR LINES
R.M.S.
TITANIC
Sailing Date: April 10, 1912.
A.C. Perri has been writing creative pieces for over three decades. Her works appear in local and international journals including: After-Hours Journal; The Word’s Faire – That’s Absurd Anthology; The Provocative Inklings; Brilliant Flash Fiction – Anthology; Bootleg Magazine; Gems Zine; Brilliant Flash – Tenacity Anthology; Failed Haibun Literary/Rinnan -Literature/Moonstone Press: Fatal Force Anthology; 101 Words; Moonstone Press: Tribute to Moonstone and Larry Anthology; Wax Poetry - Moonstone Press: S/He Speaks 3: Voices, Writers–Anthology; Australia Poetry Magazine – Wax Poetry – Art Magazine # 7 – First Place (print date: May 15th, 2025); Oceana Poetry Magazine – First Place – The Shakespeare’s Pen Oceana division (print date: May 15th, 2025).
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