Tag: flash fiction
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Odd Prompts: Crickets
The stridulation of thousands of crickets rose around him in a cacophonous chorus of desire. Not content to sigh of their longing, the racket could wake the dead. In the moment, it was the only sound, and not just because it was drowning out any other. The only thing still working was the crickets’ calls…
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Odd prompts: The Meeting
The rain had been falling all night, and the roar of the river could be heard even from the cabin high on the hill. The last of the autumn had washed away, leaves fluttering to the ground and plastering themselves over the lawn with the force of the water falling. Dawn hadn’t been breaking so…
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Odd Prompts: Flick
The boy dragged the it of the broken branch laboriously through the damp sand. It made a fine writing surface, with the tide gone out. He could scratch in it to his heart’s content, and then when the waves came back, whatever he’d written would be erased. The same could not be said of paper.…
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Odd Prompts: Haunted
The mouse fitted into his hand poorly, the size of it subtly wrong, the arc leaving too much room for his palm, so he had to tense muscles he shouldn’t to manipulate it. It was just one more droplet into the pool of rage growing within him. He clicked on the tiny x to close…
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Odd Prompts: Toss a Coin
The first time, he was waiting for her. She’d promised to meet him on the beach for the sunrise, and with his heart doing doubletime, he’d woken early and paced along the shore. The gleam of silver had caught his eye, and he’d bent to pick it up out of sheer curiosity. The coin had…
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Odd Prompts: Mother’s Little Helper
A piece of flash fiction. In more ways than one! *** The security guard looked up from his monitor with a frown. There had been something… The barest flicker of motion. Close enough that had it been out there, he’d have been able to see it through the glass of the lobby. The facility was…
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Odd Prompts: Time Travel
This is a one-shot vignette for this week’s prompt. Just me playing around. *** “The best argument for the impossibility of time travel?” She looked up from her cup of coffee, which she had been nursing like it was a rare commodity. “It hasn’t happened yet.” She raised her eyebrows. “Are you sure?” “Fully certain.”…
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Odd Prompts: Shortly
This is going to be an exercise in writing very short. I have a deadline coming, and this won’t fit. *** “Cor blimey.” The grimy little face wasn’t visible, but she could picture it streaked with mud already, despite the early hour. Under the layer of mud would be the too-pale skin of her young…
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Odd Prompts: Warmup
“Tell me about spring.” He nestled close to her, his eyes heavy, his body too warm. She tucked the blanket around him and accepted the snuggle. It was hard for the littles. They didn’t understand so many things. Sick was one of them. Spring was another. “Once upon a time…” She began. He looked up…
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Odd Prompts: Magnetic Repulsion
A little snippet of a SF romance. Written my way. *** The first time they met could best be described as a case of magnetic repulsion. Their eyes met across the void between them, and the force of their attraction flipped them violently around. “It sounds better when you put it that way.” She was…
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Odd Prompts: Belladonna
A piece of flash fiction, or a vignette, as you please. *** The mirror reflected her own face, and the dark room behind here. She’d drawn all the drapes herself, long before she’d fallen into bed… somewhere in the early hours of the morning. Now, it would be broad daylight outside, yet it was dark…
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Odd Prompts: Have a Beer
I don’t know that I’ll revisit this, but it was fun to write. **** Micah heard the front door, but didn’t look up from his task. It would be one of his housemates, more than likely. He didn’t look up until the footsteps came closer, then stopped as there was a tapping at the open…