For this week’s flash fiction challenge, They Fight Crime You take all sorts of jobs when you want to break into film. As odd jobs went, this wasn’t a bad one. Lawrence Whitefield leaned back a bit and smiled as he strummed his guitar to the beat of the many drums behind him. The rhythms… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Minerva and Hawkeye
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Flash Fiction: The Farmer's Child
In response to being asked to generate a random sentence. This child farms. She knows that it is work mostly done by boys. It is hard, long, muscle-snapping, back-breaking work, from sun-up until sun-down. Tools large and small are used to till the fields, harvest the grain, milk some animals, slaughter others. This child does… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Farmer's Child
Flash Fiction: The Knotted Tree
Having missed the posting of the Super Ultra Mega Game of Aspects like a champ, I fired up the Brainstormer app to get this week’s story going. The wheels gave me: Sacrifice for love, imperialist, forest animals. I may do the aforementioned Game of Aspects Thursday instead! We shall see. Engelmore considered himself no more… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Knotted Tree
Writer Report: A Writer's Numbers
Courtesy terribleminds So last week I talked about having goals, which in the case of the stories I’m writing means finishing Cold Streets and at least one other novel by the end of the year. The best way to get there, I would say, is one word at a time, but thanks to Chuck, I… Continue reading Writer Report: A Writer's Numbers
Flash Fiction: Mutter
Captured by Matt Blaze For the Terribleminds challenge . Choices are listed after the story. The catacombs beneath the Mütter Museum stretched out for miles beneath the city. Between the sewer systems and the tunnels of the capitol’s mass transit system was a subterranean world few entered of their own volition. In fact, it was… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Mutter
Flash Fiction: The Akubra
For the Terribleminds challenge, Write What You Know, I decided to both fictionalize and sensationalize the car crash I was in. It’s funny how your brain starts click on after it’s been smacked around. First thing I get is a smell. Gasoline, or something more potent. Imagine that smell you can’t get off your fingers… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Akubra
Flash Fiction: The Departure
My entry for the flash fiction challenge Inspiration from Inexplicable Photos: She’d gotten as far she could before her legs decided it was time for a break. Martina counted herself lucky as she sat in the middle of the airport, leaning against a post, not a meter from a packed bench. People hustled and bustled… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Departure
Flash Fiction: Three Haikus
This week’s challenge was a bit different. The task was, “tell a story in three haikus.” I played with a couple ideas before settling on this one. Enjoy. My cat ate a gem. It belonged to a smuggler. Now we’re in big trouble. The chase was merry, From Rome to Moscow to Prague – Bond… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Three Haikus
Flash Fiction: Knight of Swords
This week, Terribleminds charged us with writing using a motif. The d10 told me to go for Swords, in the genre of Paranormal Romance with the setting of Route 66. “This is insane, even for you. You need your rest.” Simon Cooper ignored the suggestion. Part of him hoped that the traffic would have drowned… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Knight of Swords
Flash Fiction: The Journal in the Cave
This week’s challenge had us choose one from a series of beautiful photos of impossible places. I don’t know how much light I’ve got left. But there’s plenty of air. I can’t tell if the light I’m seeing nearby is reflected from my lamp or from another natural source. It’s enough to see by. And… Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Journal in the Cave
