This is my post for Friday Fictioneers and the A-Z Challenge, a hundred word story in response to the prompt and my entry for the letter I. For more stories click the frog and for more fun “I” stuff, check out the challenge! Island Dreams Funny the things we tell ourselves. I’m better off without […]
I finally attached my mouse to my laptop. (It was hiding under my bed, as they often do.) Now, finally, I am able to post the letter for the A-Z Challenge, which is as crazy, manic and yet (oddly) fun as I hoped it would be. Without further ado, I present for your reading pleasure: […]
My entry for the A-Z Challenge, for the letter G, a flash fiction story: Goddess Only Knows Long ago, in times past telling, five solitary flowers bloomed. Every year, devotees of the Sacred Goddess braved the heart of the Great Garden, coming to visit these blooms, to seek their wisdom. Each flower had its own […]
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 […]
PHOTO PROMPT – © Copyright Marie Gail Stratford Here’s my entry for Friday Fictioneers where every week people get together to write 100 word stories in response to a picture prompt. For more fictiony goodness, click the froggy. 🙂 And now, with no further ado, I present: Vengeance Awaits One day, you will regret what […]
photo copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Doorways open into rooms leading to doors leading to rooms and blue skies and nightmares and futures we never even imagined and could have never seen coming. How can I go on without you? Years ago, my friend, you promised to share the possibilities, the dream, this life with me, whatever […]
PHOTO PROMPT – Copyright -Björn Rudberg When I was younger, I enjoyed long walks in the forest. When I died, I saw no reason to discontinue that hobby. Occasionally, hikers sense me and spread rumors of a haunting. You were the first to talk to me, to tell me it was time to move on. […]
Copyright – Dawn Q. Landau Some days he knows he will make it. Other days he wants to give in. The Maze is endless, miles of hedge and stone, but at the end waits a prize beyond all imagining. At last. A white sign reads, “Two more steps until you claim the prize.” Tentatively, he […]
PHOTO PROMPT -Copyright – Jan Wayne Fields The Chair A realtor calls Jack to the Cook house in northern Maine, to prove it’s full of antiques and empty of ghosts. He sets up his equipment in one corner of the allegedly haunted master bedroom. Then, he waits. In front of him, an antique writing desk […]
Anne Higa 