Flash fiction (also known as short, short stories, micro-fiction, or postcard fiction) are stories that take pride in their extreme brevity: some works of flash fiction have only 53 words, while others have 1,000. These works used to be referred to as “short short stories” until around the turn of the century (the year 2000) when the term “flash fiction” became the norm.
The story below is my piece of flash fiction for Friday Fictioneers, a 100-word challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. My story is exactly 100 words.
This is also my post for Nanopoblano or, National Blog Posting Month, Day 23. The prompt for the Somethingist Challenge is “something suspicious.” I decided to write a mystery of the western genre. What do you think?

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Vengeance
Hours after he had been shot from his horse, Tom regained consciousness. It was quiet except for the stream. He didn’t bother to call out. Had someone been about, they would have come for him.
When Tom felt strong enough, he walked to the large dark lumps laying next to the trail. The other five men had also been shot, but it had killed them.
As he examined Harry’s body he saw a rope. Tom pulled it from his hand as he spoke, “I’m sorry to leave you laying like this, but I promise, I’ll hang them with this rope.”
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You’ve done a very good job of portraying the grit and strength required of those who survived in their efforts to “tame the wild, wild west.” Not a place for softies.
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Thank you so much!
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He’ll do well to catch and hang them all!
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Thanks for reading!
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A great start to a revenge story. Nicely written.
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chilling
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Bleak story – but he survived – and maybe he’ll get the chance to avenge his friends.
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So he’s going to try and claim rough justice to avenge the murders of his companion. Good story with no winners.
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He’s going after them ,hopefully he’ll succeed
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A vow made over a corpse is more than likely to be fulfilled.
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Yes! Tom will do it.
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Hope he catches them (unless, of course, he is the bad man… 😉 )
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Nope, he is the good guy, and he is a mad good guy.
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