Flash Fiction learning that the heart of writing is imagination + craft + editing.
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Six Word Saturday#23
A first always leads to a last
Al was on holiday and bored so an old man shouting in real time, 'Christ was the saviour,' was an earthsave. He cast Pel, his best cyber friend, 'It was like he talked Martian.'
Pel, in his second year of Solar Languages, laughed and said, 'No, he's talking archaic Amerikon.
Random Word: Trends
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Friday, 20 August 2010
Do not go gently into the night
Visit Mr.Knowitall to post your own Friday Flash 55 word story or poem!
I watched him wake up - the anger in the cover thrown back, and the stabbing hand trying to find spectacles - before he even spoke.
‘You again?’
‘Your family are waiting for you.‘
‘Baloney, they’re a bunch of losers.’
I rested my scythe on the bed and sat down. The morning ritual had begun.
Random word: awake
Do not go gently into the night
What do you think of the infidel question?
Thursday, 19 August 2010
On the day I heard
I picked a poppy once,
a different red
and knew death
is what breaks
so many men
because it can't be fixed
or talked away.
So I won’t be brave,
for a victory
but for the smell of a rose
she once brought me
as it droops
in the water.
Random Word: Grief
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I’m home darl…
When she walked in, it wasn’t the laughter at him, in her pink thong that hurt but the look of disgust, when he asked, ‘Any other colours?’
Random Word: Risible
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman
This is a 50-word story where E = Evil baffled! written for the ABC Wednesday meme that is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt
As soon as Miss Jenkins saw the sweetshop door open, and heard from nowhere the wailing woman music, she knew it was trouble. That song always heralded a struggle with Evil.
Lucifer, took off his glasses, stopped, and looked round cautiously, he’d only popped in for a quarter of humbugs
The slayer
Random Word: Dog Person
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