II. SHORT FICTION

Blake-Plock’s short fiction often experiments with narrative frame, meta-fictional structure, and the intrusion of the unreal into ordinary settings.

“The Inside Outers”

4,200 words

While a small town prepares for an attack by mysterious figures, fear and rumor turn the town’s defenses into the instruments of its destruction.

“Child Star”

4,500 words

A failed spaceflight traps three former sitcom stars in a society of children who treat their old catchphrases as sacred law.

“Burial Plot”

4,000 words

Two characters trapped in separate horror stories discover they can speak across their narratives and begin searching for a way to survive the plots that were written to destroy them.

This document is periodically revised as new work appears.