I belong to a Goodreads group called “Pro-Active Destruction”. Please don’t worry, we’re only in the planing phase of pro-actively destroying things, so it’s cool.
Anyway, we’re doing a flash fiction contest for authors in the group (still open for new members). You can see my entry where I posted it in my author thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1775080-john-l-monk-at-your-service
Just scroll down to “Emperor’s New War” for a very short 800-word read. If it seems a little weird here and there, it’s because we had to include words like “brother” and “sandwich” and “twilight”, and names like “Carter” and “Foxworthy” in the story to get points.
Good fun.
John L. Monk 
I’ll never be able to look at a big fat donkey again without thinking of this. Thanks John!
Lol, thanks David 🙂