The Flash Fiction of Don Desmond

The four stories collected in THE FLASH FICTION OF DON DESMOND tell with dark humor our quixotic struggles to impose accountability on an uncaring universe. Disconnection from the notion of karmic justice resonates throughout Desmond's collection of stories.

In "’67 Galaxie Fastback Coupé", hilarity ensues when two millennial car buffs choose the wrong neighborhood to take a test drive. Discover why staring at a man's wife can be worse for your teeth than sugar.

In "Suicide Kings of Hermosa Beach," a former Desert Storm medic confesses "By the end of my tour, I was lighting cigarettes off the smoldering corpses of infants," but did he kill the woman known only as "the Blonde?"

"The Mjölnir," tells of a Swedish salvage ship's discovery of a fortune in treasure. The Captain's machinations to circumvent the U.S. State Department perfectly illustrate why "Wee fish must take tiny bites."

In "Project Prometheus," a scientist with bad knees and digestive issues confronts a madman willing to sacrifice half a billion human lives. Somebody has to save the polar bears but is a "final solution" ever either?