A Flash Series by W. Steve Wilson
Writer’s Digest February Flash Fiction Challenge: Writer’s Digest sponsors a Flash Fiction Challenge for February. Each day, Moriah Richard posts a new writing prompt and invites the Challenge participants to write a flash fiction piece based on that prompt.
I thought, why not write one story for the entire month? But each day’s prompt determines where the next episode goes. And I’ll limit each episode to 100 words. Hopefully, it will all tie together and make sense when we come out at the other end of the month.
Here are the adventures of Jenny and Jackson, siblings launched on an inter-dimensional, galactic adventure.
Links to episodes by week for online reading are below the PDF downloads. I hope you enjoy the adventure.
Download the PDFs
Season One: Jenny and Jackson escape from Mars on a commandeered ship, hidden in the Martian dust for 10,000 years. What awaits them on the homeworld of the Designers, the ancient aliens that built the ship?
Click the link and then check your Download folder. Print in Portrait, Two-sided select the Booklet option, and it’ll print out as a nice 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet, complete with cover.
[Note: depending on your printer or your smartphone, the PDF may not be printable in booklet form from your phone and will be produced in portrait mode.]
https://wstevewilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Tharsis-Plateau-Season-1-Booklet.pdf
Season Two: Jenny and Jackson search for the mystery of why the ship was on Mars and learn a truth the Designers want to hide.
Click the link and then check your Download folder. Print in Portrait, Two-sided, select the Booklet option, and it’ll print out as a nice 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet, complete with cover.
[Note: depending on your printer or your smartphone, the PDF may not be printable in booklet form from your phone and will be produced in portrait mode.]
https://wstevewilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Tharsis-Plateau-Season-2-Booklet.pdf
Season Three: Jenny and Jackson team up with the sisters from Tau Ceti f and an old friend of their father’s to reveal the plans of the Designers.
Click the link and then check your Download folder. Print in Portrait, Two-sided, select the Booklet option, and it’ll print out as a nice 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 booklet, complete with cover.
[Note: depending on your printer or your smartphone, the PDF may not be printable in booklet form from your phone and will be produced in portrait mode.]
For online reading, weekly links are below. I hope you enjoy the results.
Season One
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 1, Episodes 1 through 7
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 2, Episodes 8 through 14
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 3, Episodes 15 through 21
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 4, Episodes 22 through 28
Season Two
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 1, Episodes 1 through 7
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 2, Episodes 8 through 14
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 3, Episodes 15 through 21
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 4, Episodes 22 through 28
Season Three
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 1, Episodes 1 through 7
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 2, Episodes 8 through 14
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 3, Episodes 15 through 21
The Tharsis Plateau – Week 4, Episodes 22 through 29 (Leap Year)