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J. Dane Tyler's Fiction Blog
http://jdanetyler.wordpress.com/
A repository of my fiction work, mostly horror and general fiction.
Recent Posts
#FridayFlash: Shy Cowboy
This is another exercise in character study; this time, I’m attempting to portray awkwardness and embarrassment, shyness and nerves. Please feel free to let me know how you like it, what works, what doesn’t, etc. Thanks for the read! UPDA...
#FridayFlash: Western-Fantasy Vignette 2
He stood under the salmon sky while the wind slapped denim, skin, hair. She faced away toward the road, skirt flapping over broken dust-colored boots. Her coat ruffled in the thin air. Her locks tattered as she held them captive beneath the hat she p...
#FridayFlash: Tickets, Please.
The wheels clattering over the track junction woke him from a restless sleep. He blinked into the strange light. For a moment he couldn’t find the source of the blue-white glow, but gave it no further thought when he couldn’t recall getting on a ...
#FridayFlash: Copyright Protected
Music oozed through speakers mounted high in the room’s corners and spilled over the murky half-light leaking through cracks around the heavy drapes and shut blinds. The sliding closet door stood ajar, revealing a jumble of clothes thrown haphazard...
#fridayflash: In Short Order
He drags on the cigarette and lets the smoke out through his nostrils in a gray-blue plume. It clashes with the red vinyl of the stools, chairs and pocked countertop. A lump of adobe which used to be a pile of donuts fossilizes under a glass cover at...
Morning Commute
Eddie sat in his usual corner at the back of the train car on the upper deck, face turned to the window. He didn’t look at me when I got to the top of the stairs at the front of the car. Usually he smiles. A woman in the front seat opposite us on t...

