Category: Flash-fiction
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They were arguing again…
I wrote this in a writing class after receiving a writing prompt intended to stimulate the imagination! Here’s where it took me. Why not give it a try yourself?
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Inside the witch’s house
In the holidays I went to visit the woman that Dad calls a witch. I never got home and I think we’re working on spells together now, but I’m not sure…
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Frustration
In a kitchen setting where an artist was demonstrating tone on a Rembrandt study, via Zoom, an explosion was oddly unexpected. I ducked down. That’s the last Andy McNab I’ll ever read.
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Tomorrow’s diary entry …
I wrote this fictional diary entry prompted by the mention of ‘cocktails’ by another writer in my Goldster writing class today
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‘bots
“I know what you mean” St John squeaked. “I mean, where are the women? We came here for a night of sybaritic pleasure and no totty about. Not a sausage. I was so looking forward to putting the pedal to the metal, if you know what I mean.”
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The Empuhuh
RoryStoryCubes helped me write this piece of flash fiction about a dog, a dragonfly and a dragon in a spare half-hour.
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Round robin anyone?
Some time ago I took part in writing a ’round robin’ …
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Gardenias again
Based on the prompt ‘Gardenias again’, I wrote this piece of flash fiction about a man who, living alone, comes home from another hard day at the office. But all is not well.
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Interruptions
Steve got a writing toolkit for Christmas, and last night we each took one of its’ emery boards, each with a prompt on it, and started writing. Then he interrupted us every 5 minutes with another line we used to change the direction of our stories. My starting prompt was I loved the way she…
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The wheels on the bus …
Writers & Artists Yearbook asked on Facebook “Writing exercise time: write a short paragraph to accompany this image.” I posted this …
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