Category: creative writing
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Flash Your Fiction Workshop Writeup
Day One Last night’s Flash Your Fiction class at Howard Community College went great! We talked creativity, freedom to create, and sparking the flame. We put a little science in our fiction and did the Cloud in a Bottle activity and it applied perfectly. (I am just starting to incorporate different aspects of the…
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10-26 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: horror and ratio)
“Done!” Haley shouted as she hit the Enter key. She collapsed against the back of her chair and removed her headphones. “Are you serious?” Orson stuck his head in the booth. “We’re finished?” “Yes, sir, we are outta here, Styled Hunter VII is in the can!” She grinned. “Mallory DeMarco hunted and trapped The Hatchet…
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9-25 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: decoration and pod)
“There! That’s perfect!” GCH11878 nodded to itself. It narrowed its eyes and studied the angle of the decoration that now hung from the top of its sleep pod. It had found the shred of shiny paper on garbage duty and hidden it away in its smock pocket. “Not quite there,” it whispered and repositioned the…
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10-24 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: institute)
“Look at this place,” Miano breathed. She turned a full circle in the main hallway and marveled at the prisms reflected from the millions of crystals embedded in the walls. “How are they doing that?” Banner twisted this way and that. Each reflected a different set of colors. Some blazed deep reds and golds. Others…
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10-23 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: excluded)
“When I was in college, we ended up doing a guerrilla production of a show” Amanda took a sip of her latte. “How do you do that? A clandestine production under the cover of night that no one knew to go see?” Charlie laughed. “No, to protest that the theater department decided to a show…
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10-22-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: certified)
You jerk awake. Into darkness. The spasm explodes in you, and you retch onto the sticky floor. “What the hell is going on?” You whisper it to yourself because you are alone. The black is relieved by one square of gray light. You crawl on bleeding hands and knees to the tiny monitor on the far…
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10-21 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: iron)
“Hey, Mom,” Jeremy cries. “Look at me!” He grabs the iron fireplace poker and ties it into a neat knot. “Honey,” Doris Jameson sighs and picks up the twisted mass. “Now what am I going to do with it? I can’t use it for the fireplace anymore.” Jeremy screws up his face in concentration. “I…
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10-20 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: steps)
“I can’t take it anymore. You do what you want.” Josh steps away from Hannah and rushes out of their New York City apartment. The sun trickles in through the skyscrapers but still leaves everything in shadows. “Good,” Josh says aloud to no one. “I prefer the dark.” “Is that true?” The woman is so…
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10-13 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: haunt)
“Okay, now that you’ve got your morning coffee, I want to ask your advice,” Ashley curled her voluptuous form in the overstuffed chair at the Java-Mukti cafe. “What do you think of this?” she handed her phone to Anna. “You are my why. You’re my one and only. You haunt my dreams,” Anna read the text…
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10-12-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: Venus and treat)
“Thank you for the treat, my darling,” Venus smiled her thanks at the beautiful young man who knelt before her. His bronze skin glinted in the sunlight of the Mediterranean summer. He raised his chocolate brown eyes to the level of her dainty feet, lay prone on the warm stone, and kissed every toe. “You…
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