Six Months of Night
This week’s 500 Club prompt stumped me. It was simply this: “Break outside of your comfort zone. Write 500 words from the point of view of someone unlike yourself. Examples: Little person, amputee, autistic, or…
Quite Contrary
Why is it that writing in a bitter voice can be so much fun? It would get old doing it all the time, I’m sure, but every now and then talking on a narrative voice…
Raven’s Wings
My favorite game to play when writing flash fiction is to turn the prompt I pick on it’s head, meeting the requirements in a way that clearly deviates from the expected. It’s a challenge I…
Blood and Frosting
I’m back on schedule this week with another 500 Club post. I keep telling myself I’m going to use prompts from a different source one of these weeks, but the folks over at The Parking…
Beating the Dead Horse
This week’s bit of flash fiction is a little late. Late enough, in fact, that it is actually last week’s. I’m working, once, again, off a prompt from the kids over at the 500 Club. It was…
With Power
Typically when posting a piece of flash fiction based on a 500 Club prompt, I post the prompt right up front, too. That way you know what requirement I was trying to meet when pounding…
Crazy
In keeping with my commitment to write more flash fiction, here’s something based on a 500 Club prompt: “The new year marks ends and beginnings. Write 500 words where the last line mirrors the first.” Admittedly, it’s…
Black Friday
Something for the 500 Club, which I haven’t written for in entirely too long, and for Nimue who told me some time ago that all my 500 Club posts are sad. This one started out that…
Held Back
He’s back. I really should consider writing more about the unnamed assassin. Something more than 500 words. I find him disturbingly comforting. This is, however, is another flash fiction piece for the 500 Club. The prompt…