The rush of a stranger's despair hit her like a tsunami and physically rocked her on her feet. She slammed her shield in place. A moment later she felt the emotion through a filter, like sound under water. Much more manageable. She turned away. What idiot said empathy was a good thing?
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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...
