Iris
28 days of Flash — 27 of 28 Iris woke up on a floor. Not the concrete of the train station nor the unpleasant vibrating metal and rubber of the train, but a real floor. Varnished wood planks were under her and a thick red …
A Layoff Story
28 days of Flash — 26 of 28 Mari was in the salad bar line at the grocery store at lunch when she felt her phone buzz with a new text message. She ignored it. Texts were for ignoring until you decided to pay attention …
One-Sided Conversation
28 days of Flash — 25 ot 28 — two different voice treatments of the same narrative — Method Writing Take 1: You — Straight Talk You are not going to believe what just happened to me. So we just got back from the big …
No Boundaries
28 days of Flash — 24 of 28 — Part 1 — Boundaries Jayne sat in the front passenger seat of the RV and stewed. She couldn’t even look at Katie, right next to her, chomping on popcorn. Katie just kept pointing and reeling off names. …
Boundaries
28 days of Flash — 23 of 28 — Omniscient POV practice Katie turned her RV into the parking lot of the Stardust Convention Center an hour before the start of her 30th high school reunion. She parked in the back of the lot, out of the way but …
Writing the World Alive: Earth
28 Days of Flash — 22 of 28 — Using the prompt for a title, I might have taken it a bit too literally. 28 days of Flash — 22 of 28 Oh sure. It seems like it would be fantastic to be the fifth largest …
Getting Evan
28 days of Flash — 21 of 28 — Part 3 Read: Breaking Ben and Thea Beginning When Evan looked at his phone, it was still showing “Do Not Disturb” and had five notifications silenced in the background. Two of them were sales texts, one was a missed …
Tend Your Garden
28 days of Flash — 18 of 28! Weaving two stories together around metaphor “Brothers and sisters, I stand before you today as a penitent man. I have done you the great disservice of not being a constant shepherd of our flock. A shepherd who …
Quitting Pickleball
28 days of flash — #16 of 28 — fiction Sylvia had only booked the appointment with the hypnotherapist to get out of going to her pickleball group. Aggie was too competitive and it made Sylvia uncomfortable when she would scream and demand Sylvia return her aggressive high …
The Lighthouse Keeper
28 Days of Flash — Lucky 13 of 28 As Thomas climbed the 203 steps up the center of the lighthouse, he whistled a song he wrote himself which had exactly 203 notes. It made him smile to fill the echoing tower with music whenever …