This is my entry for the A-Z challenge. (For some reason I can’t seem to save the A-Z letter images to my computer (it saves as an HTML no matter what I do, which is really weird). Anyone know why?) On Eagle’s Wings Screams pierce the flaming night. They always say it is darkest before […]
After visiting a lot of sites involved in the A-Z Challenge. I’ve decided to try to devote the rest of my posts to speculative flash fiction. Writing one post a day is crazy-manic, but I feel like I’m learning a lot. Deliberation Life isn’t always easy. Sometimes, it becomes impossible, literally. In her regular evals, […]
This is my response to the prompt at Friday Fictioneers, a slightly less than 100 word story. It is also my entry for the A-Z Challenge, with C for Closed. Title: Closed Genre: Realistic Fiction After running for over a mile, Meghan reached the store. A flipped-around sign marked Closed. Glass. Ten tile-covered feet. It […]
This is my second post for the A-Z Challenge. For the letter B, I chose Belief. I could be wrong. But I believe we all believe in things. Belief is part of what makes us human. We believe in God, in ourselves, in one another, in empirical science, in cynicism, questions and doubt. So many […]
This is my post for the Insecure Writers Support Group AND the A-Z Challenge. I’m lazy so I’m combining the two! A is for Author is my theme for today. According to the dictionary, an author is a writer – someone who has produced some manner of literary work. (Been there, done that.) In my […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook Here’s my story for Friday Fictioneers. Am lagging again this week, sorry! For more stories, click the froggy: Reluctantly, the weary soul rises from her long slumber, dusting the mist of ignorance from her sleep-encrusted eyes. At last free from the seemingly unending dungeon, the crystal clear colors of reality […]
PHOTO PROMPT – © Erin Leary In my dream world, we could all be equal, not lined up in tidy little rows, not all conveniently the same shape or size, but not so different, in some sense the same. We could all join in agreement that maybe, just maybe, Someone looking down from above could […]
This is my latest post for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, wherein on the first Wednesday of every month we post about writing. In this month’s post, I will 1) share some untruths about fiction writing and 2) attempt to be funny. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time on plot, character, and world […]
This is my first time writing for Monday’s Finish the Story, and I know we’re supposed to write 100 to 150 word fiction, but I thought – just this once – it might be okay to relate a true story, based on a guy I once met. When it came to a challenge, Jim Smiley […]
PHOTO PROMPT –© Dawn Q. Landau Here is my post for Friday Fictioneers, where every week we write 100-word stories in response to a photo prompt. For more stories, click the frog. Operation Grab-the-Steak Slowly, carefully, Bob lifts his head over the rise, silently taking in the landscape, making a quick survey of the five […]
