Snapshots

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The shutter opens and light enters the photographer's camera: a snapshot, a single moment in time, captured once and immortalized forever. Like photography, flash fiction embodies the same fundamental principle. The writer takes up his or her pen, and an idea takes shape: a whirlwind encounter with the surreal and supernatural, an image to be replayed over and over in your imagination.

Culled from his blog, and inspired by Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Helene Wecker, Jeff Coleman's surreal and bite-sized ruminations on life and death, memory and faith, dreams and nightmares will take you on a journey through the cosmos, opening doors to the human psyche and revealing what lies beyond the familiar...