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Friday Flash Fiction -- a leetle bit late

I had this ready last Friday, but got waylaid by real life until now….

“I personally think you’re nuts.” He glanced away from her considerable bosom as he spoke.

“Coming from you, Jerry, I consider that high praise.” She flicked her ash into his Blackberry and stood up. “My new attorney will be in touch.”

“Tell him to [Continue reading]

Flash Fiction with a Vengeance

“I don’t care if he is in the hospital. Serves him right. Thinks he can just ignore me — and when he’s working on my dime, too – ”

She snorted. “He’ll be the one who pays.”

“Shirley, I’m not sure I want to represent you in this matter. There [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Haiku

Scrawled on a soggy scrap of paper at the beach yesterday:

Conf’rence call — cancelled.
Plan B: Pack lunch, grab suit, GO.
Low tide, warm waves. Bliss.

So where am I with my Creativity Workshop goals, my One Story Per Week plan? I’ve already admitted that I didn’t write a single word during my vacation. My bad. But I do have a couple of semi-stories in the hopper from my ‘Breaking the rules/breaking the law’ segment — again, more [Continue reading]

Friday Flash -- July 16

“I want those to go, too.” She pointed to the row of rosebushes, yellow and red blossoms bobbing in the breeze.

“Ma’am?” The bushes were healthy, lush, and while he wasn’t a flower man himself, he was sure someone had lavished a great deal of care on them, and recently, too.

She smiled and [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Fiction 55

This builds on last week’s Friday Flash Fiction:

Barbara looked at her daughter. How could she tell her? Oh, Kirsten, by the way, I’ve been living a lie in front of you and Dad all these years?

She winced at the false notion of ‘Dad’ that her husband, her daughter held. What possible [Continue reading]

CW - Update on goals & progress

So where am I along my Creativity Workshop path? According to the original plan, I should be starting my last of four stories centering around a specific place and time: post-Hurricane Ike Galveston Texas. Am I there?

Nah. I realized during my week in Texas that there was Absolutely No Time [Continue reading]

Late Flash Fiction

Fellow blogger Parrot Writes set out this flash fiction challenge for last week:

We are traveling 60 mph on the interstate going home from our Ashland stay. Suddenly we see brakelights four or five cars ahead of us and watch a minivan swerve off to the shoulder of the highway and slide to an immediate [Continue reading]

Friday Flash Fiction

This one came out of a short conversation I had with an airline seatmate last week. She’d slept most of the flight, and I only got to talk with her after the plane actually landed. She was in her late 20′s, probably, and she’d just come from visiting her sister, who was a couple of [Continue reading]

Friday Flash

Here’s a little context-setting for today’s Flash. Yesterday my writing buddy Kathan posted her search for a character, Looking for my next character. Writing buddy Dayner posed the challenge to write Friday Flashes around one of the characters Kathan saw at Starbucks.

Could I resist? Of course not. But I couldn’t pick [Continue reading]