Tag: Flash Fiction
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Solange
Would this train ride never end? William stared out the window at nothing much, just as he’d been doing for days. He knew travelling from New Jersey to San Francisco by train would be grueling, but he was not prepared for the monotony of Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, ad nauseum. And then there was the…
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Address Unknown
The word prompt is “place.” *** Every year or so, Perdida packed up and moved. Sometimes her search took her across country, other times, a few miles away. Some cities came close to what she was looking for–almost, but not quite. Always, something was missing. It seemed, at times, that such a place did not exist—not for…
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Breakfast for Two
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle has chosen the photo below as or writing prompt. 100 words. Sylvia was one of those people who made friends wherever she went. Real friends — not the superficial kind in which one outgrows the other. After Sylvia started a couple of kitchen fires, her children decided it was…
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The Will
This week at Friday Fictioneers, Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields has chosen the image above by Jeff Arnold as our writing prompt. When her Aunt Mia passed away, Cara was surprised to learn that she had been included in the will. She’d seldom seen her aunt and didn’t feel as though she even knew her. When the box…
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Muddled to Perfection
When the bartender was finished, Jimmy’s Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned was as muddled as his mind.
aka, The Abject Muse 