Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to procure a randomly generated sentence and use it as the first or last sentence of the story. I got “The owner dines next to the observer”. So… this is what I created from that....
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For this past Canadian long weekend, Victoria Day weekend, my parents gladly look our 2.5 year old daughter off our hands for five days. FIVE DAYS! That’s like an eternity and a blip of a second in Parent World. My husband and I thought, “We...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #41: The Paint Colour Title Scheme
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to use one of ten paint colours Chuck found as the title of our story, bonus credit if we make the colour the star of the story somehow. Cap was 1000 words, but I couldn’t...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #40: Over the Top Pulp Insanity
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to write some ‘pulp craziness’… I haven’t really written much pulp, but judging by this story, my mind can be a little crazy, so at least I can put that to paper… Enjoy. Hope it’s...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #39: Random Title Generation
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Our Flash Fiction Challenge this week was to generate a title using a random military-operation name generator. Some of them were pretty damned funny. This is what I ended up with: Operation “Narcoleptic Frenzy”. Hence, that is the title to my story, although the story...
Continue ReadingThe Lothgoliar ~ Evil is Only a Matter of Perspective
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Because of human existence, they have been forced to retreat to the most uninhabited places on Earth; but no longer. Things are about to change… When footballer Josh Edwards meets May, she at once captivates him. But when an unknown creature comes to them in...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #38: Death is on the Table
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to write a story in which death is featured. Featured. Not just a part, but featured. So, I did. 1000 word cap, and I was actually just under this week. Imagine that. Enjoy. A Fatal...
Continue ReadingWhere Are You Springtime? And Other Stuff.
It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote a short story for you guys, and a while since I’ve posted anything but, so I thought I’d give you a quick little update on things to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about you!!...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #37: Choose Your Own Setting
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Our flash fiction challenge this week at Terrible Minds was to choose one of five settings and use it for a short story, trying not to deviate from the setting at all, and keeping under 1000 words. The setting I chose was “Abandoned Amusement Park”,...
Continue ReadingFlash Fiction Challenge #36: “The Fire of the Gods”
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Our Flash Fiction challenge this week was to write a story using the title “The Fire of the Gods”. That was the only criteria, besides the 1000 word cap. Hope you enjoy. The Fire of the Gods We called them the gods, because, to us,...
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