Categotry Archives: Flash
160 – On a Jet Plane
Just like that she left him, got on a plane and didn’t look back. “See you next year,” she told her dad right before returning to college. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – Hunger in the Time of Recession
Oddly, the hunger isn’t of the body, like the starving masses in Africa. It’s in a hollowness of voice as the neighbor says, “I’ve got all this experience in their field, but they still didn’t hire me. The roof is leaking and I’m almost out of food. I don’t know what I’m going to do.” The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, […]
From Drew to Suzie
Daunting… the things I should have said to you. When I think of you there, alone and me here, alone for nothing but pride…. That’s all gone now; my pride in work, my sense of self worth even my sense of self. If I had stayed, we would be happy now. But now… the thing I’ve become… If I tried to go home now, would you even let me in the door? The challenge, should you choose to accept it, […]
160 – Slowing Down
Out of step, out of time, out of sorts From as far back as she could remember it has been this way. Now at 85 she’s turning cartwheels in the nursing home sending wheel chairs and metal trays scattering. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – Gene thinking of Tracy
Sometimes she gets that look on her face, that better-than-you expression that makes me want to crawl off in a hole somewhere, like I’m so dirty she can’t stand it. Then suddenly she smiles and I know I was wrong. Everything is great. She’s fun and I’m wonderful. Until she gets that look again. Don’t know if I love her or hate her. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. […]
160 – King of the Sugar Hill
Climbing the mountain made when the Halloween bag was overturned, he ate his way to the top, only to regret the decent down his gullet. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – Make Me Sick
I want to be viral. I want to get spread around, passed from hand to hand, talked about, viewed, spewed, forwarded, and shared. I want to be tweeted and facebooked and commented on over and over. I want to be remembered with lots of stars and returned to over, and over, and over. Make me viral, please. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by […]
160- A Head of Hair
She found it on the bathroom floor. About the right size and shape, it looked exactly like the back of her son’s head. She kicked it gently; relieved it was only hair until she realized what that meant. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – Raining Leaves
After the water and the cold the leaves turned to gold on the trees then succumbed to the wind. Twirling lightly, fluttering like tired butterflies they fell on the streets and yards. Everywhere, falling drifting like snow When a car drove past they took re-flight before coming up flush with the curb like discarded newspaper The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, […]
160 – Rwaarrrr!
Tina’s pet sitting business gave her great joy. She got to spend so much time with the kitties and doggies. She did it all year long. The only night she hated checking on the animals was Halloween. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – On All Hallows Eve
Maniacal laughter from the street Though rain and cold should drive everyone indoors Won’t stop Mechanical? So repetitious A Halloween doll on someone’s porch Set off by a passing hand. But no. It changes, Rising in pitch, Becoming desperate. A lunatic released from the asylum? A quick check, twitch of the curtain. Ah…. It’s nothing But a drunken witch. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is […]
The Wise Man
He gives me glimpses; like bits of gold glittering in a mudslide, stars shining through a fog, or tidbits of truth in the newspaper – each glimpse a nova. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – The Half-Empty Nest
They are still here, when they want to be, which isn’t often. Mostly it’s after school activities, and hanging with their friends. They don’t need me to drive them anymore. They don’t need me to cook for them, though I still do. They can stand on their own two feet. It makes me sad, a little, and glad even more. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 […]
55 – The Road Taken
He made the wrong choice. The low road was supposed to lead to dancing, drinking, a real good time. Instead it wound down deep into the bowels of the earth, dragging him to an unexpected inferno. Standing over a pit of flowing lava with no other direction scalable, his companion said, “It all works out in the end.” He didn’t even make a splash. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 […]
At the End of the Season
Quick! Flower. Blossom now, while the sun still shines and the warm, soft earth will still hold you firm and winter chill can not yet grasp your fruit. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
