Category: flash fiction
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10-5-16 Flash Fiction challenge (prompt words: private and share)
“Ok, here’s the next question in the quiz,” Alana flipped the page of her issue of Beautyé magazine. “If you were going out to have ice cream with the hot dude who asked you out at work, what flavor would you get?” “What a stupid question! How does that tell you who your perfect guy […]
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10-4-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: voice)
“What a stupid looking doll,” Jerome gripped the doll by her hair and swung her over his head. He danced away from Sarah and held the doll out of her reach. “She’s not a doll. She’s Zoe, and she’s mine. Give her back.” Sarah’s lower lip trembled, but she clenched her fists and stood her […]
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10-2-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: incognito)
Laura stepped back from the mirror and appraised her right eye. An artful cat’s eye made her appear polished yet with a hint of mystery. With a curt nod, she applied the the same to her left eye. James entered their shared hotel suite and stopped short. “Do we have a mission tonight I didn’t […]
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10-1-2016 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word coat)
“I still can’t believe I’ve never seen this show,” Susan sighed and spread her arms to take in the St. James’ Theater. “Especially with what a ‘Wizard of Oz’ dork you are,’ Leslie laughed and continued flipping through her ‘Wicked: the Musical’ Playbill. “You know, when I was a kid, I thought the musical, ‘Joseph […]
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9-28-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: lint)
“You know what I’ve always believed?” Shannon folded the last towel in the laundry. “I’ve thought that lint and dustballs are their own ever-expanding universes. Hmm,” she picked some lint off the towel and scrutinized it. “Yeah, right,” Jonathan smiled as he stacked his folded shirts. “And as they roll around and get bigger, that’s […]
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9-27-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: onward)
The soldiers lay scattered in various forms of stupor on the stifling hot day. General Thomas of the Twelfth Brigade surveyed them and shook his head in disgust. “Get up! Onward!! Move it, soldiers!” Thomas yelled at his troops. They remained motionless. The door to the Mess Hall swung open. “Tommy, lunchtime,” the General’s mother called. “And […]
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9-26-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: degree)
“To what degree are we talking here? Is Stevenson just a little guilty or a lot guilty?” Jonas collapsed at his desk at the law offices of Mackenzie and Jonas. “You think too much,” Mackenzie pulled a cigar from his jacket pocket, propped his feet up, and prepped his smoke. “But what if it was […]
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9-25-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: rebel and dismissal)
“You’re such a rebel,” Genevieve reclined against the chair in the teacher’s lounge. “I could never do it.” “You couldn’t do what?” Ruth smiled. “Stand up to the administration. I’d be too afraid it would all end in my dismissal.” “And it probably will for me,” Ruth poured herself another cup of stale coffee. “But […]
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9-24-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: casual)
They stopped at the mouth of the cave and stared in awe at Gorgol the Fat. His long red tail tip swished this way and that as he licked one of his curving claws. “We need to pass by him all casual-like,” Mauricio whispered to the younger ones. “But he’s gigantic, and look at those […]
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9-23-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: perspective)
Monica stepped back from her canvas and viewed it with a critical eye. “I can’t quite get the perspective right on this one,” she shook her head. “Let me see,” Marcello maneuvered around her in the tight space. He studied the canvas of deep blues, dark purples, and inky black that seemed to shift in […]
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