These flash fiction and short stories were inspired in different ways. The flash fiction stories were the result of word prompts provided by a lovely and strange little website called Garden Gnome Publications. Allen Taylor is the editor and he's got quite a good mix of the weird and the strange on his website. I urge you to check it out if you have the time.
The short story titled The Name Collector was inspired by an invitation to dinner with fellow church members – a husband and wife. At the end of the dinner the wife did the oddest thing...asked our family to sign our names to a guest book she kept in her dining room. When I signed it I noticed there were many pages filled with names.