Other Worlds: A Flash Fiction Collection

By Chad V. Holtkamp

Indulge your sense of adventure.

This book is not your traditional Sci-Fi flash fiction story collection, but more of an experiment in creativity.

The five stories are some of the author's favorites, written for the sheer joy of being creative in the moment.

Read Other Worlds today and embrace the unexpected!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Briefcase Media Group
• Release date: Aug 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781945982736

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Contents

Introduction

Practice Makes Perfect

The Cleanup Crew

Father of Waters

Running From Mars

Sweet Escape

Join the Crew!

Also by Chad V. Holtkamp

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

The following is a brief collection of five flash fiction stories.

I spent most of 2018 working on the first three novels in The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures. As the holiday season kicked off after Thanksgiving, I realized I’d spent the last four months on editing and getting them published but hadn’t written anything new.

After reading Blaze Ward’s book, Pulp Speed for Professional Writers, I challenged myself to change that. Every day for a week, I’d head up to my writing station in our attic three times a day and simply write whatever came to mind.

At the end of the week, I had over twenty new stories and published them all as Outer Thoughts. I hadn’t heard the term flash fiction, but being under 1000 words, they were in that ballpark.

These are a few of my favorites and I hope you enjoy them.

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Chad V. Holtkamp

Chicago, Illinois

22 August 2020

Practice Makes Perfect

The sign above the vapor door in the weapon’s depot training hall read PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT in oversized Comic Sans font. To add to the joke, someone whose name was lost to history scrawled in Sharpie below the offensive lettering, but don’t take your eye out trying.

Faren Grindholm didn’t get it either. He always assumed