FFfAW – My Friend, Jenny

Jenny and I would play in this park and swing on the swings. We would sit across from each other on the teeter tauter together. We didn't have a care in the world.

Suddenly, Jenny became sick and they called it cancer. After many long and very sick months, Jenny died.

The park statue of a little girl with broken arms, reminded me just how much I missed my sweet friend.

Today, I came to this park to play and remember Jenny. With a heavy heart I walked to the swings and there was Jenny waiting for me to swing.

(100)

Thank you Phylor for our photo prompt this week!

This is my 100 word submission for the flash fiction challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. We are given a photo prompt and approximately 75-175 words with which to create our stories. Everyone is welcome to participate. For more information, click HERE.

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FFfAW – Cloning

Darian and Slade's work was top secret. Their “secret project” was being conducted in the basement of the “Science of Tomorrow” building. Their project was that of cloning a dinosaur.

After years and years of trials and errors, they finally succeeded in cloning a dinosaur using a crocodile. Sure, they had to clone one of the smaller dinosaurs, but it was a dinosaur, nonetheless.

As it grew, they met the problem of where to house it. Should they continue to hide it? If so, how would they hide it? It may not be an offspring of the largest dinosaur but it wasn't the smallest either.

After wading through months and months of red tape and much ado with the government, Darian and Slade finally opened up a Dinosaur Zoo. The two scientists will continue cloning dinosaurs until they have all the Dinosaurs that have ever roamed this planet.

Their work will be funded by this zoo. Their real challenge will be, keeping dinosaurs from getting into the hands of the public for breeding and resale.

(175)

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Thank you Yinglan for the great photo prompt this week!

This is my 175 word submission for the flash fiction challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. We are given a photo prompt and approximately 75-175 words with which to create our stories. This challenge is open to all who would like to participate. For more information, click HERE.

To read all the great stories submitted for this challenge, click on the blue froggy button below:

 

 

FFfAW-The Blue Door

The blue door is inviting. I cautiously knock feeling some apprehension. What will she say when she sees me? Will she recognize me? It's been such a long time. My anxiety begins to build as I wait for her to answer. What if she rejects me?

I hear a small dog barking in the background. I hear someone moving around inside. I knock again, lightly. The television is on, I hear it in the background. Shuffling sounds come nearer to the door. The door creaks open.

I see the aged version of the woman I remember.

“Mamma, is that you?”

(100)

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This is my submission for the flash fiction challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. We are given a photo prompt and approximately 75-175 words with which we create our stories. Everyone is invited to participate in this challenge. For more information, click HERE.

To read other stories submitted for this challenge, click on the blue froggy button below:

 

 

 

 

TLT – Waiting – Week 8

Three Line Tale – Challenge hosted by Sonya, Author of the blog, “Only 100 Words.”

Bright colored flags flutter in the breeze where I wait for you, but you are thirty minutes late.

I'm tired of waiting, where are you?!

Screeching tires, crashing metal, and sirens, drops my heart to the floor.

This is my submission for the challenge, Three Line Tales. This challenge is open to all who would like to participate. Sonya gives us a photo prompt and 3 lines to create our story. For more information, click here.

To read other Three Line Tales, go to the reader and search under, 3LineTales.

 

FFftPP – Books and Childhood

After their father was injured and no longer able to support the family, Sarah and Jenny were sent to work in the sewing factory. A sad existence for two little girls.

The girls' mother took them to the library once a week so they could choose books to read. They loved to read and read voraciously whenever they got home from work at night.

Through the pages of these wonderful books, the girls lived adventurous lives and went to exciting places. They may have had to grow up fast but they lived their childhoods inside the pages of the books.

(100)

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This is my 100 word submission for the flash fiction challenge, Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner, hosted by Roger Shipp. He provides us with a photo prompt and approximately 200 words with which we create our stories. To read the other entries for this challenge, click here.

 

 

 

Three Line Tale – To The Moon and Back

“I love you to the moon and back,” he said to me so very long ago.

I keep searching for these words as I travel through time and space.

My thoughts transport me, once again, to the moon and back, and then back again.

Sonya, with the blog, Only 100 Words, is hosting a weekly challenge, 3LineTale. This is my submission for this week. Everyone is invited to participate. For more information, click HERE.

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FFfAW – Calming the Horses

“What's this, ya'll ain't scared of a little rain and lightning are ya?” Cookie rebukes the horses, “You boys are suppose to be rough n' tough horses not no panty waists.” Just as his voice trailed off he heard howling in the background.

“Oooooooooowwwwww.”

“Oh, I see. You boys ain't 'fraid of no lightning, you just knows there's wolves close by. Now, that's different!”

Taking his pistol, Cookie shoots a few times into the air making the horses even more jittery. The wolves scatter.

Cookie calms the horses and gives them each a carrot.

Just another night on the trail.

(100 words)

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Thank you so much to Scott, with the blog, Scott's Place, for providing our photo prompt this week.

This story is my 100 word submission for the challenge, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. In this challenge, we are given a photo prompt and approximately 100-150 words with which we use to create our stories.

Everyone is invited to participate in the challenge and to get more information, click here.

To read all the fabulous stories submitted for this challenge, click on the blue froggy button below:

SPF – Resting in the Rig

My home away from home is hard to park and has a closet size room with a bed, a refrigerator, a microwave, a television set and a port-a-potty. (I can sit on the potty and watch a game). It isn’t much but it gives me a chance to rest on my long hauls. I just have to find a place where I can park it all night. There are more overnight parking along highways for the 18-wheelers than there were in the past.

Tomorrow, I get up bright and early, eat a light breakfast and instant coffee and get back on the road for the east coast. I’m hauling a load of eggs. Which by the way, have you priced those things lately? It’s more like I’m hauling a load of gold. Heck, I think I’ll just cook me some of those gold eggs for breakfast.

Gotta go. Games on. (150)

A huge thank you to Alistair Forbes for hosting the Sunday Photo Fiction Challenge. Allistair provides us with the weekly photo prompt and approximately 100-200 words with which we build our stories with. The challenge is fun and addictive and is open to all who would like to participate. If you are interested in learning more, click here.

Click on the link above and go to the blue froggy button and click to read all the wonderful stories submitted for this challenge.

MFtS – The Devil’s Abode

“The cemetery spread along the area known as Devils Abode” has the graves and tombs of Klu Klux Klan members that fought violently against freeing the black slaves and even tried to wipe out the black race. After their bodies were buried here it became known as the Devils Abode and no one else wants to be buried here. I consider it to be a “dead” cemetary. In fact, family members of the cemetery’s population refuse to come here to pay their respects to their family member. They say, they have no respect for the men that dealt out torture and killing like these men did. No one takes care of their plots or puts flowers on their graves. Seems not one single soul wants to be identified with them. Can’t say that I blame them. As for me, I am writing a novel titled, “Devils Abode.” It is about the men that are buried here and their terrible crimes.

(150)

Barbara Beacham hosts Monday Finish the Story Challenge where she provides us with a photo prompt, the first sentence to our stories, and approximately 150 words in which we are to use to build our stories. It’s fun and addicting! Everyone is invited to participate. If you are interested in more information, click here. To read the other wonderful stories click on the link below:

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Quiet Getaway

Our campsite was a beauty with a bubbling stream near a railroad track bridge that had not been used in years. The quiet was so encompassing you could actually hear yourself think. The sun smiled at us through a veil of blue sky, white clouds, and a friendly flock of swallows.

We rolled up our pants and waded in the stream, allowing the silt on the bottom to squish between our toes. Occasionally, I would feel a fish nibble, making me laugh. We sat on the edge of the stream and let our city skin soak up the warm sunshine, begging for a reprieve longer than a weekend.

We fell asleep with a kiss, holding hands and wishing tomorrow could wait a few more days.

(125)

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Thank you Dawn M. Miller for our lovely prompt photo this week.

This is my 125 word submission for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Challenge. We are given a photo prompt and 100-175 words with which we use to write our stories. It is fun and addicting! The challenge is open to anyone who would like to participate. For more information, click here.

To read great stories by some fantastic writers, click on the blue froggy button below.