Tag: #FlashFiction
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#Flash Fiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community
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September 23, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about an author’s chair. It can belong to any author. Where is it located and why? Does it have special meaning? Go where the prompt leads! My authors chair is in a pub called The Drum. It has a blue plaque…
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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #FFFC
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Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge #129 The midnight land, they call itGrandad said it existedSaid he had seen itBeen there once when he was youngHe showed me a strange, coloured stonehe had taken close to the beachsaid he saw a mermaid leave it thereit’s blue, not any blue you have ever seenit seems to change each time…
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Crossover Moon…
I am used to dreaming, to have one dragged into a nightmare, kicking, and screaming, is a step too far.I am half spying on Pa, as he sits in the shady part of the workshop. I know what he is doing, and it’s not good.The black shadow of my nightmare is chasing Pa across our…
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Broken Fields… #FlashFiction
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I left my love in a broken field where no flowers grow.This, written on a card with a red rose lying on top, I found on my doorstep.Who left it or why means nothing to me. I popped the rose in a small vase, dropping the card in my pocket. I left for work and…
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‘Fiction In A Flash Challenge 2021.’ Week #43 @Suzanne Burke @pursoot #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #IARTG #WritingPrompts
Flaming skies, a white devil moon Watching the galleons fighting through rough seas Birds hover above, waiting to pick over dead bones. Let them wait, the dead are thrown overboard, the adventure isn’t over yet. There is gold beneath these waves and the captain means to find it. The men desperate, after months away from…
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‘Fiction In A Flash Challenge 2021.’ Week #41. by Suzanne Burke @pursoot #IARTG #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction
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I had Him for the next hour. You created the earth below, why did you make this one visible to all? What is so important about this planet? If there are others, why are we not allowed to see them? Childish questions maybe My brain wants an answer. He smiled. Time is the key to…
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#FlashFiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community #Poetry
February 25 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story using the word frozen. It can be descriptive, character focused, action driven. Go out onto the ice and find a frozen story. Frozen with horror by the razor-sharp edge,the blade at my throat, the overlapping fear of warm bloodFree flowing from…
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#FlashFiction Challenge for Carrot Ranch Literary Community #Poetry
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February 18: Flash Fiction Challenge In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story where a character is in the right place at the right time. It may be cause for celebration! Turning 75, something to celebrate, you think?Not me.The morning went slow,dragging my mind further into darknessDeciding on a fresh cup of coffeeto pull…
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‘Fiction In A Flash Challenge 2021.’ Week #37 #IARTG #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FlashFiction #Poetry
What would you do if a strange door popped up in your bedroom?A weird twilight momentThere are no signs, yet I feel it screaming, stay out, do not enter.How many of us can resist the temptation?Slowly, I push the door open, stepping into the dark space.In the blink of an eye, I find myself in…
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‘Fiction In A Flash Challenge 2021.’ Week #34 #IARTG #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FlashFiction #Poetry
Early morning fingers of sunlightWarms the water below.Where young life drinks its fillShadows vanish, he is safe.his mother carefully nudges him.To go deeper for a bathShe will teach him by being at his side. his days are filled with love… © Anita Dawes 2021