Category: flash fiction
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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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10-22-16 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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10-12-16 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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10-11-16, prompt word: changes (Flash Fiction Challenge)
“Everything changes,” Mario whispered into the darkness. “Nothing stays the same. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” He sighed and ran the muzzle of the gun along his jawline in a kind of perverse caress. “I’ll tell you one thing that will change,” Myra stomped into the room and emptied the last First…
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10-10-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: bathed)
The last light of the setting sun bathed Amanda in fire and ice. Her satin dressing gown shimmered and the diamond on her hand sent twinkling lights racing around the room. “I just don’t understand, Tyler,” she reclined on the bed and gazed at him with lustrous brown eyes. “How could anyone expect you to…
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10-9-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: trek, land, photocopy)
“If we head over land for six more miles, we ought to be within sight of the Eagle Head rock formation directly to the west,” Tyrell studied the map. “Are you sure?” Devane squinted his eyes at the left edge. “Looks to me like six miles would put us directly off the land and into…
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10-7-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: prediction)
The candlelight flickered along the anxious faces of the small group seated around the velvet-covered table.”Join hands, everyone,” Aloiysha, Grand Medium of the High Court intoned her instructions. Her head lolled in a circle and small moans escaped her lips. The rest of the room’s occupants glued their eyes to her face. “Madam Aloiysha,” Dalia…
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