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After Pompeii, they banished me. I’d protected them for centuries, but humankind needed to find comfort, reason and blame. A god of fire and wing was an easy target.I watched fertile land birth a thriving city. I watched the sins of greed, the exchanges of coin for touches of flesh, and choice of ignorance over …
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The Apostle@Making_Fiction158 WordsMy Holy Bible clasped firmly in hand. I will only release it when they prise it from the battered husk that carries me, for my bodily vessel will soon be soaked in the colour of martyrdom. I will be just another boat perished on these foreign coastlands; another messenger of God sacrificed at …
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It’s called a care home. It’s never been a home. Care is but a mission statement, a corporate philosophy, a paper-thin reassurance to those that need to believe, who need to trust. The worker straps a pirate hat to me. I’ve learnt not to struggle with them, but sometimes my mind is absent. I immediately …
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“To be alive…again” 158 words Billy relaxes on the barstool. The smell of freshly caught fish being untangled from fishing nets awakens slumbered memories. The bar overlooks the Suriname River, today, it’s the colour of liquid clay; its beauty is mesmeric. He promised himself he would enjoy every physical sense this time. Oh, to be …
“Plastic” 158 Words Waiting…watching…praying. Always praying. A few feet and a cosmos of emotion separate Maggie and Jim. The plastic box sits between them. Its power is all consuming; it is fear, contained. Extreme senses fill this cathedral of apprehension. Arid heat. Clinical smells. Harsh fluorescent lights; broken only by UV lamps and crayon-coloured wires. …
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160 Words. In the stench of the sweat-factories, she toils; she has always toiled. Here in the land of the free and the brave, she was born into servitude, like those before her. She yearns for the impossible: recognition, justice and freedom. Her unforgiving masters pay her nothing. She will be mercilessly beaten into …
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As I get older, I appreciate that I have a very suppressed mischievous side, which I am starting to release every now and again. After the previous competition entry, I felt the need to enter another story to the awesome Flash! Friday site, which challenged the global writing community to come up with a flash …
I'm getting (slightly) controversial with my title; is this what happens when you get more confident and become ever so slightly less inhibited? Anyway... The wonderful site that is Flash! Friday challenged the global writing community to come up with a flash fiction story. 1000 words or less. Based on childhood mischief (Tom Sawyer was …
Like many of the wonderful crew at the good ship Flash! Friday. I decided to try and submit each week. 150 words based on a picture, word and theme is challenging but normally achievable even on a busy Friday. http://flashfriday.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/flash-friday-vol-2-32/ The picture and theme were challenging for me. The clumsiness element less so. I had this story …
Theme : Friendship. A couple of my very kind writing friends (the lovely Jacki D & Natalie B) pointed me in the direction of a few competitions. The first one I wanted to try was Flash! Fiction. 150 word limit. A new theme and photo every Friday. Incredible writers flashing it up (obviously, not in …
Metropolitan Dreams 