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Dark Flash 4
Nine stories of dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Featuring shapeshifters, werewolves, ghosts, monsters, dragons, a Valkyrie, and more...there's a bit of everything in this collection of flash fiction! All nine stories originally appeared on R.B. Wood's Word Count Podcast in 2019.
49 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 23, 2019
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About the author
Maria Haskins
56 books141 followersMaria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She was born and grew up in Sweden, and debuted as a writer there, but now lives just outside Vancouver with two kids, a husband, a snake, several noisy birds, and a very large black dog.
Her work is available in the short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS (2023) and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN (2021).
Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Nightmare, The Deadlands, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Mythic Delirium, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere.
She has had several books published in Sweden, but since 2015 she writes mainly in English.
Her work is available in the short story collections WOLVES AND GIRLS (2023) and SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN (2021).
Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, Nightmare, The Deadlands, Shimmer, Cast of Wonders, Mythic Delirium, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere.
She has had several books published in Sweden, but since 2015 she writes mainly in English.
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January 20, 2020
So so good
This reminds me of being young, of the kinds of stories that thrilled me then. Sharp, short, hiding nothing from you and using your own imagination to drag you to the end.
This reminds me of being young, of the kinds of stories that thrilled me then. Sharp, short, hiding nothing from you and using your own imagination to drag you to the end.
March 10, 2020
Maria Haskins has become one of my favourite short story writers. She's also writing here, there and all over the place - so these Dark Flash collections are a great way of keeping up with her progress.
These collect her flash fiction pieces written for the Word Count podcast, by RB Wood, which itself is worth checking out.
Maria has a knack of turning her pen into a scalpel, able to peel open your flesh with a deft flick of the wrist. I read these at a time when my emotions were particularly high but this collection really got to me at times.
Now, being flash fiction, these are quick, sharp slices - it can be hard to get too in depth. And while they were all written to different prompts for the podcast, if there is something of a theme across them it is of becoming. Becoming something more. Someone more. Becoming... well, you'll just have to read to see.
These collect her flash fiction pieces written for the Word Count podcast, by RB Wood, which itself is worth checking out.
Maria has a knack of turning her pen into a scalpel, able to peel open your flesh with a deft flick of the wrist. I read these at a time when my emotions were particularly high but this collection really got to me at times.
Now, being flash fiction, these are quick, sharp slices - it can be hard to get too in depth. And while they were all written to different prompts for the podcast, if there is something of a theme across them it is of becoming. Becoming something more. Someone more. Becoming... well, you'll just have to read to see.
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