Submitted. I pulled a couple muscles coming up with a title (13 titles actually, that no one liked. I don't believe in omens...) 1,000 fat words.
Good luck to you all!
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Toss and turn last night thinking I need an all new story. Come up with a new story and fall asleep. Ignore problems all morning. Rewrite original story, now at 998 words and feeling good about it. Roller coaster writing!
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The first round I started writing twenty minutes after receiving the prompt and I landed in 15th place. This time I have: SF, an aviary, a starting pistol and I'm as blank as the rounds in that gun I need to include in the story! #flashfictionchallenge2019
Finished the first draft for #FlashFictionChallenge2019 and only have 180 words to trim. I'm a first timer, pulled Comedy which could be a problem because I'm usually the only one who laughs at my jokes. Is it bad that amuse and abuse rhyme?
Reed was sucking air through his smashed nose and moaning in his sleep. I figured his dreams were like my memories, #flashing like a cop car hot on our tail. I thought about dad always doing time or in the bar, ma always crying or praying her beads, me pissed at them both
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We met Duke in a back booth at the #Fandango. His huge hands were wrapped around a foamy beer and he had that shit-eating grin that always gave me the willies.
"You boys ready to help out an old man?"
Who's he kidding, Duke could survive a nuclear blast. We nod
"Good..."
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"I want a #parrot"
I shared a cell with Reed, five years I listened to every single thought that ever bubbled up in this brain come popping out his mouth but this was new.
"You know how I freeze around girls, I could teach it my pick-up lines."
"You've got pick-up lines?"
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A lumberjack, a #parrot and a confused cross dresser walk into a #cheese shop.
“Ullo, ullo, ullo is this some sort of joke?” says the shop keep.
The parrot snuffs it, the lumberjack raises a complaint and the cross dresser stares at brie.
"It's Eddie. Truck driver who lives over on North Street."
"How do you know?"
"The tiny #parrot tattoo on the forearm. I recognize it from all the times it sat on my bartop."
The deputy turned the arm over with a gloved hand. "Well? Where the hell's the rest of him?"
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Tusk landed heavy, stunned, arms limp by his side, his ears full of the #parroting chatter of crows: kill him
He felt the sting of fire, saw his ugly ear fly, his face flooded by the warmth of his blood
He looked up, saw the sword come down: fail and Violet will die!
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