Searthern Dangers

By N. WS. Jokela

29 out of 31 stories written in July 2018 and daily standard prompts alongside challenges and other things.

This time, you shall bear witness to summoning demons and devils, explosions and a spinoff to a novel series that is, at the time of publishing this, still unpublished.

• Language: English
• Publisher: N. WS. Jokela
• Release date: May 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005905200

N. WS. Jokela

N. WS. Jokela, more commonly known as WindySilver, is a Finnish IT student and a hobbyist artist fighting a war against procrastination on the losing side. When her free time is not taken up by things like reading, procrastination, video games, watching series or more procrastination, she mainly writes sci-fi fanfiction and original flash fiction of various genres. While she dabbles in a lot of things ranging from digital art to jewelry to plants to whatever catches her interest, writing is her persistent forte.You should not give her yet another crazy flash fiction challenge to take part in because she simply cannot say "no" to it.

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Introduction

Oh, hi! Good to see you!

It's been a good while since I last released a Flash Fiction Month collection, but I'm glad that you are here. This book collects 29 out of 31 stories written during FFM 2018, a year I think I reached the point where the quality of the whole is actually good. In fact, two of the stories within these covers were published in The Ruminations of a Multiheaded Monster alongside 29 other FFM 2018 stories from various authors! These stories are Fish, Ribbons and Sherbet Ice Cream from day 4 and The Janitor Gets Everywhere from day 26.

In 2018, my personal challenge for FFM was using a standard prompt each day. They heavily guided where I could go with the stories, but I'm happy with the results! This year also had a surprising amount of meta stories, which I find amusing.

I hope that you enjoy the stories in here and read the following collections as well once I get them released!

1: Broken Lock

Standard prompt: And your prize is...nothing! by SpearHawk.

Challenge: Post three elements – an autobiographical description of yourself as though you were a fictional character/adventurer in under 75 words , a setting for an adventure story in under 50 words and a MacGuffin fit to lead even the most experienced adventurer astray in under 25 words – for others to use in their stories. Then write an adventure story with those three elements taken from other FFMers (one per FFMer) who have posted their own.

I chose these elements:

Character from TheBrokenBride: Recently separated from the military, they're just looking for some peace and quiet. They've moved back in with their parents and are currently managing a herd of two dogs and four cats.

Setting from GDeyke: A particular, unremarkable-looking and not very large asteroid in an abandoned asteroid-mining field, deep in space, with nothing at all within half a month's FTL travel, lit only by the distant multitudes of stars.

MacGuffin from Krystal12Phoenix: Something new. Something that isn't normal. Whether it be a new adventure, a different life, or just some new pair of shoes, they have to never have seen/experienced it before.

The elements I posted were these:

Character: A writer specializing in computers who just cannot get things done but cannot get enough of Mike Shinoda's new album. (In case you're interested, the album in question is Post Traumatic, which was released half a month before this challenge.)

Setting: A damp cave, formed by changes in the local soil throughout the centuries.

MacGuffin: The need to get the story done.

BAM!

Silvia jumped, gasping for air. Suddenly it was completely dark, yet she could feel the cold sweat on her skin and the tacky sheets on her skin. Was she dead?

No, she could not be, not with what she sensed. It was just another nightmare from the battles, this time the moment she had been shot straight between her eyes by an enemy who had gotten the upper hand. With the war over, the nightmares kept proving Silvia over and over and over again that her decision to leave the military was the right one no matter all her prowess, fame and high rank.

Aradia jumped to her lap suddenly, whining. Then his twin, Arunda, followed, barking. Silvia huffed; of course the dogs smelled her fear. That was why she had started to lock her bedroom door when the nightmares had kept recurring. Why was it open now?

Silvia pushed the dog twins away, got up and went to inspect the lock. This was new; the lock was busted. Her parents' home was not high-tech like her home at the military had been, but the things did work. It was strange that it had broken. Silvia shrugged;