Loose Threads

Short stories about big changes.

From 2006 to 2010, Luís Filipe Alves wrote over fifty flash fiction stories, in as many genres as he could manage, to teach himself how to write short narratives. This book compiles the best of those stories:

The face in the mirror;
Stay;
Knut and the shield riders;
Fractal;
Nebraska;
Domino effect;
Playground;
Old times;
Expectations*;
The greater Truth;
A lucky man;
Oscar & Furball;
To the Mars Terraforming Commitee – Final Report;
Swinger*;
Fragments;
50 boxes;
Vertical world;
Thunderstorm;
Thirst*;
Tell me something dirty*;
Multiple choice;
She didn’t look at you;
I hope he dies today.

*These stories contain sexual language and explicit situations.