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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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10-3-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt words: grimace and misunderstood)
With a grin, Rachel entered the Java-Mukti coffeeshop. She gazed at the bright tapestries on the walls as she neared the front of the line. “I want a soy latte, please,” she said to the tall barista. “You better leave, Kvik. We don’t serve your kind here,” he muttered. “I’m sorry. I must have misunderstood […]
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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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9-30-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: digress)
“At this point, we can only speculate about the possible reason for the young lady’s apprehension that she was in dire danger,” Reginald Wiltshire Helmsworth sauntered around the room. He punctuated each by tapping his dapper fedora with his mahogany cane. He skirted chairs, tables, and the occasional foot stuck out in the middle of […]
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9-29-16 Flash Fiction Challenge (prompt word: passport)
“Do you have your passport?” He approached Jenna at the Starbuck’s. “My passport?” She looked up from her book. “Yes, your passport to love.” He emphasized the last word and sat down in the chair opposite hers. “Because I could take a girl like you on a trip around the world,” his eyes ran the […]
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Courage and Ego – two ingredients to be a writer
In my mind, it takes great courage and a healthy ego to be a writer. I mean let’s look at this. You have to believe in yourself enough to think that people would be interested in reading whatever sprouts out of your head/hands/soul. And then, you have to have the guts to put it in […]
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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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