April 2: Flash Fiction Challenge
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!
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
Fun, Jaye. Thanks
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Thank you, John…
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Fun but with such dark undertones as so many struggle for the basics of food these days. Well done, Jaye.
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Thank you, Diana…
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I would mail you a pizza in a heartbeat! Fun poem, and yet captures the hungry times for many.
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Thank you, Charli, so glad you liked my poem!
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Plenty pizza here but pasta has been in short supply. We found some spaghetti and had a bolognese – divine!
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