#Flash Fiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community… #Poetry

April 2: Flash Fiction Challenge

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99 words, no more, no less. It’s a simple constraint, an easy-to-master literary art form, and a powerful writing tool for creatives and entrepreneurs. Writers calibrate the usefulness and beauty of 99-words through weekly flash fiction challenges.

April 2, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes pizza. It can be an original pizza pie (or slice) or something pizza-like. Go where the prompt leads!

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No food in the shops

The cupboards are bare

My children are hungry

There is nothing to share

My stomach is rumbling

I try racking my brains

What on earth can we do while

All our energy drains?

A meat pie sounds great

A roast dinner would be better

I am being haunted by food

buttered toast would be kind

but pizza would be good

I can see it now, my mouth waters

I can smell the delicious aroma

of tomato, ham and cheese

A joy to my heart, my stomach too

Will someone bring me a pizza please?

©Jaye Marie 2020


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8 responses to “#Flash Fiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community… #Poetry”

  1. Plenty pizza here but pasta has been in short supply. We found some spaghetti and had a bolognese – divine!

  2. […] Pizza by Anita Dawes […]

  3. I would mail you a pizza in a heartbeat! Fun poem, and yet captures the hungry times for many.

    1. Thank you, Charli, so glad you liked my poem!

  4. Fun but with such dark undertones as so many struggle for the basics of food these days. Well done, Jaye.

    1. Thank you, Diana…

  5. Fun, Jaye. Thanks

    1. Thank you, John…

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