Flash Fiction Zines
WIPS
Short Stories
Currently writing
Short stories and flash fiction that are currently in progress by a.v. dicken. This page tracks her work as it moves through drafting, revision, and eventually reaches readers.
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Little Mary discovers what it takes to be as pleasing to others as the local ice cream special is to her
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After rescuing a sad looking fern from her local grocery florist, a woman loses her mind trying to keep it alive.
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Eleanor wakes up one morning to find herself dissolving into steam little by little, except no one can see the change but her.
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In a old cabin by the sea lives a woman who can sew masks that transforms the identity of the wearer, but she cannot seem to sew one that fits her own face.
The Bird Book Project
The birds are dying, and with them the stories they carry.
In a town where stories determine what survives, and remembering isn’t safe….Derora is a graduate student working in the university library, trying to hold on to the only thread left of her missing mother, who would take Derora there in the summers as a child.
Through a series of events, she is pulled into the hidden academic world of the library’s Special Collections. There she finds evidence that the magical birds from her childhood, keepers of human stories, might be real and slipping toward extinction. As Derora pieces together what’s real, she learns that this extinction may be by design.
If Derora can’t piece together what her family has spent her whole life trying to erase, the disappearance of folklore itself may become final, taking the birds and everything they remember with it.
photo credit Unsplash - Jon Tyson, Eric Stone, Tomas Robertson, Elena Takmakova, Joylynn Goh, Soham Banerjee