Fiction Friday #1 – The Bad Word.
***In the effort to have somewhat of a regular theme or at least a schedule, and in line with my goal of keeping myself writing creatively, Fridays will now be devoted to flash fiction. Huzzah. Today’s...
View ArticleFiction Friday #2 – The Sandwich Shop.
This week I’m using a prompt from Flash Fiction Friday: “Give us a peek into the life of someone with a form of OCD and tell us how it plays into an event in their life.” *** The pre-wrapped sandwiches...
View ArticleFiction Friday #3 – The Botched Proposal.
This week’s prompt is from a fair hand – “There was a ring in his teacup…” ***** There was a diamond ring in the bottom of his cup of Earl Grey. It lay glinting in a small puddle in the curved...
View ArticleFiction Friday #4 – The Thing.
This week I’m entering a writing contest from Legends Undying – There Be Dragons Here. The rules are that you must write about dragons (obviously) and keep your entries under 1,200 words. This is my...
View ArticleFiction Friday #5 – Bass.
This is a free-write on clubbing. Tada. *** The bass goes through your entire body, starting in your feet as you walk down the stairs and vibrating up your legs and into your torso, into your frantic...
View ArticleFiction Friday #6 – The Lunch Date.
This week I took a quote I liked from Pinterest- “Like, I just wanna make art, read books and find someone who likes me enough to kiss my face”. *** “Life is so full of struggles sometimes,” Rebecca...
View ArticleFiction Friday #7- Fortuneteller
This is a song I wrote about a crazy person in loveeeee. *** you work on the boardwalk reading cards to unlucky strangers i stopped by one day on a whim and it took me by surprise when i looked into...
View ArticleFiction Friday #8 – Cabinets – part 1.
Ralph sat back on his heels and straightened his back, grimacing as the kinks and pops loudly protested the movement. He was only forty-three, but ten years of working bent over in the stacks were...
View ArticleFiction Friday #10- The Rules.
Hey internet. It’s my pater’s birthday, so I don’t have time to write the riveting end of Cabinets for y’all today. Enjoy this piece instead. Remember to hop over to Facebook and join my blog’s...
View ArticleFiction Friday #11- Cabinets, part three.
Here it is folks, the long awaited end of Cabinets. I do not for the life of me know why so many of y’all liked this story so much, but, yay? I guess? *** Ralph and Mr. Brown stood silently for several...
View ArticleFiction Fridays #13 – Ideal Life, part two.
Continued from here. *** I’m walking into work at nine on the dot. My co-workers greet me with smiles and warm hellos. My boss asks me how my weekend was. My mom was in town, visiting the studio I work...
View ArticleFiction Friday #14- Bizarro Me Daily Prompt.
Today’s Fiction Friday is inspired by the WordPress Daily Prompt- Craft a scene in which you meet an opposite version of yourself — or a story in a bizarre, backwards world. *** My immediate first...
View ArticleFiction Friday #15 – Bizarro Me 2
Last week’s prompt was so fun I figured I’d visit it. Welcome back, Casandra-3. *** It was another 3 years before I saw Casandra-3 again. I was still living in the same downtown apartment with the same...
View ArticleFiction Friday #16- Reckless, part 1
I KNOW. I owe you the end of Bizarro Me 3. IT’S NOT READY YET. DEAL WITH IT. *** I met Mark Tarly on a snowy December afternoon in the ski patroller’s hut at Stowe Mountain. I don’t remember getting...
View ArticleFiction Friday #17 – Reckless, part 2.
Continued from here. *** I remember the first time I ever skied through the trees as a little girl. I was seven, maybe eight, with my Dad and my grandpa. My Papa, as I called my Grandfather, had been...
View ArticleFiction Friday #18- Bizarro Me 3
Continued from here. *** “So anyways, how did the rebellion or uprising or coup or whatever go?” I asked. “Oh, you know how it is,” Casandra-3 said wearily, even though it was obvious to both of us...
View ArticleFiction Friday #19 – Reckless, part 3.
Continued from here. *** “It’s going to be a tough ride today,” Mark said, leaning against the beat-up blue Landrover that had somehow gotten us there in one piece. I looked up at the tall mass of...
View ArticleFiction Friday #20 – Reckless, part 4.
Continued from here. *** I remember the last time I saw my father. It had been on a snowy day in February a month after my Papa had passed away, three years ago. I took him skiing, partly because the...
View ArticleFiction Friday #21 – Reckless, part 5.
Continued from here. *** The mountain is one hell of a fickle bitch. One minute, she’s cold, violent, icy, spitting mad and throwing obstacles into your path for out of spite. The next day she’s...
View ArticleFiction Friday #22 – Bizarro Me 4.
continued from here. *** “You dated somebody for pie,” Casandra-3 said incredulously. “Like I said, I’ve had worst reasons,” I responded. “No wonder you’ve gained so much weight,” she snorted. “Okay,”...
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