Brigit’s Flame - June 2013, Week 1 ( Read more... )

Brigit's Flame: May Just for Fun Contest
Prompt: Corona
Title: "I Can Explain...."
Wordcount/warnings:  758 words, rated PG
Author: Graham Patrick Smith

“Fergus! What happened here?!” Fergus heard Father McCollum cry, and the sound of boots on grass quickly approached behind him.

Fergus swallowed nervously and kneaded his hands together.  He had ( Read more... )

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Brigit's Flame - April Week 1 ( Read more... )

Title: "Hook, Line, and Sinker."
Brigit's Flame May 2013 week 1 entry
Prompt: Pumpkin
Wordcount/warnings: 1490 words, rated PG (alcohol and tobacco use)
Author: Graham Patrick Smith
The air was thick and smelled terrible.  It swirled around his head like thick soup, composed equally of cigar smoke, fried meat, heady body odor, and whiskey.
“You, sir!” ( Read more... )

This is a short story written for LineByLine, a prompt-based writing community.  The community provides one line which much be used somewhere in the piece.  This week's line was "It wasn't because of that."

This short story centers around characters that have been popping up in my writings for a while now: a guy named Beck, who dropped out of ( Read more... )

Title: "Wingman"
Prompt: Parrot
Brigit's Flame February 2013 week four
Word Count/ warnings:  962 words, rated PG
by Graham Smith

I looked at myself in the mirror, and only then did I realize just how filthy it was.  Good lord; when had anyone in the house last washed it?  Had it ever been washed?  It at least hadn’t been washed this ( Read more... )

Title: "Murder ( Read more... )

This story is the sequel to one I wrote for the topic ‘Thank you’ almost a year ago.  It was a story about an unnamed protagonist and a twelve-year-old girl he adopts during the zombie apocalypse.  It's not necessary reading to understand this story, but it can be found here: http://chuck ( Read more... )

Title:  "Artyom's Arsenal" 
Brigit's Flame, Oct. 2012 week 2 entry. 
Prompt: Intimacy 
Wordcount/Warnings:  755 words, rated PG-13 for one swear word 
Author: Graham Patrick Smith (chuck_the_plant)

I have to admit, this one was inspire by playing a little too much 'Metro 2033', a fantastically underrated shooter with a rich story, set in the sewers of ( Read more... )