New flash fiction: “Ticket” by J.R. Blackwell

The June 2009, #93, issue of Hub Magazine has a new and outstanding piece of gritty SF flash fiction entitled “Ticket” (2009), by writer, photographer and performance artist J.R. Blackwell. It’s a story about a Martian soldier and his fight for survival on Earth. Here’s the opening line: “Orion counted out six stimulant pills in his palm, the inheritance plundered from the pockets of his dead friends.”

Thanks to Dave Tackett of QuasarDragon for the tip and the link.