short story

  • 3TC MM20 | Margins of Mayhem

    Welcome to the daily Three Things Challenge.Use your imagination and creativity using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family friendly. Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC, and you can add Di’s logo if

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  • Simon and the Balcony

    Simon and the Balcony

    It’s time for Fandango’s weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (his time), He is going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the

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  • Twisted Fate

    Twisted Fate

    It’s Fandango’s Flashback Friday! This piece was originally posted for Photo Challenge Day over at the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie! During the bus ride home, Sonya savored the days’ events in her mind’s eye. She still couldn’t believe it actually happened. And it was sweeter, better, and…yummier… than she’d ever imagined. What made it even more extraordinary was

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  • Mr. Pitts

    Mr. Pitts

    Clowns are people. Real people. No bullshit. Believe it or not, our lives don’t begin and end under the big top. We have homes, wives, parents, children, friends, and ups & downs. Just like you, we have lives. We have names, too. Brace yourselves, but Bozo, Blinky, and Clarabelle are stage names. For example, my

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  • Candle Mustard

    Candle Mustard

    The mail carrier had come early that day, and Melissa rushed out to see what he’d brought. There was a shiny looking envelope hand-lettered in magenta Candle Mustard — their signature font. “Oh, God,” she mumbled. “Not another damn Sublimity Party.” Sure enough, it was. And for that coming Saturday, no less. “Crap! I’m so

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