Tag Archives: telepathy

ELLEN TOWNSEND: Mycology Reveal

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We’re in woodland with backpacks, introductions.

Glowing couples hold hands; our foraging instructor munches leaves. I nibble. He discusses elderflowers whilst sitting amidst daisies; we picnic on sourdough and dandelions.

“Wild mushroom pasta,” he says. “Folklore believes these fungi help people read minds.”

The couples devour bowlfuls, then leave separately.

Ellen Townsend is an art teacher and writer. Her work has appeared in Friday Flash Fiction and Paragraph Planet and has been broadcast on BBC Radio.

JOANNE BOWERS: Blessing and Curse

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As a mind reader, he belonged to a top secret elite. His mix of freak natural ability and carefully honed skill was something he took pride in, until, a year after he’d married, he returned home from an arduous mission to learn the hidden truths of the wife he adored.

Joanne lives in North West England, loves flash fiction and aspires to write it.

I Do Too Have Superpowers

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“I’ve become more powerful than you will ever be able to imagine!”

“That doesn’t even make sense.”

“Can you imagine telepathy?”

“Yes.”

“Oh. Telekinesis?”

“Yes.”

“What about telepyrokinesis?”

Ever since being struck by lightning at the anime convention, Todd had been getting on a lot of people’s nerves.

Interglobal Connectivity

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“Life must have really sucked before we harnessed wormholes for space travel, ended poverty, and discovered telepathy,” thought Dangar, sitting in his bedroom on the third moon of Beta Centauri.

“It did,” thought his grandfather, lightyears away on Repsilon Nine. “But it was even worse before we built the internet.”