Categotry Archives: Fiction
Suzie’s House 239: Maria
When Drew said, “Maria’s waiting. You’ll be staying with us,” Vin’s heart sank. It sounded like Drew had done the very thing Suzie had feared – found a new love. Vin didn’t want that. Suzie and Drew were too good a match. In Vin’s mind, the future was about himself and Miranda hanging out with Drew and Suzie. How could there be any other way? He stepped out of the airport in Drew’s wake and found at least part of […]
160 – Dry
Why is it that she can write 100,000 words in a couple of months, has done it time and again, but can’t come up with 160 characters when she wants them? Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
55 – Victory
“So you wrote a book. Big deal. It’s not like you’ve never done it before. Are you going to earn anything from it? No. Does anyone really want to read it? Not likely. What kind of victory is that? You should go out and get a real job.” Sigh. “Dad, you really have no idea.” 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 – 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, […]
Suzie’s House 237: To Turn On a Dime Bag
“Whacha doing?” Vin set the remote down and turned his head to watch Ben more closely. The boy scribbled something in one of those miniature spiral notebooks that Vin himself used while on the job. For a boy with no interest in private investigation, it looked awfully suspicious. “Oh. Um…. nothing.” Ben tucked the notebook behind his back, looking guilty as all heck.
160 – Simple Things
No longer able to speak clearly, she doesn’t say anything, but I know what she’s thinking as the nurse takes her tray away. She’s thinking, “Thank you.” Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
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, […]
Suzie’s House 236: The Lurker
Ben couldn’t stand it any longer. He had to write this all down. This, this drama stuff that always seemed to be a part of Gene was better than fiction! Mrs. Audrey would love it. Ben could write it up so she wouldn’t know and….
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. […]
Suzie’s House 235: Mortification
Fran looked from face to face, waiting for the revelation to take hold. Any minute now they’d realize what a stupid thing they’d done, tying up a future star like herself. They’d untie her from the chair, and give her Kurt Cobain’s guitar, and head out to Memphis with her for her big debut.
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 […]
Suzie’s House 234: Whose Initials
“Courtney? Courtney…. Love?” Tracy touched the K.C. carved into the guitar as she spoke. Gene watched her do it, and wanted to touch it too, to feel how rough it was, like he could get a sliver if he weren’t careful. Instead, he stuck to the wall next to Mrs. H. and watched. “Yeah, Courtney Love of Hole. She used to be my room mate.” Fran glowered from where she sat all tied up to the chair. “I hung out […]
