Armed police ushered the crowd into a large hall and blocked the exits. Fights broke out but the police waited. The overseer flicked a switch. Almost immediately the people began to laugh and hug each other.
'We call it the Lotus effect. Good for thirty days.'
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Flash Fiction
Short StoryTwitter has a daily prompt using the hashtag #vss365. This thread will be for pulling those stories, plus other very short stories, into one place. There are a mixture of genres, the occasional sequence with repeated characters, and a mix of serious...