Today is the day! Get your week 1 submissions in! Be sure to add your flash fiction offering to the linkup below to share with your fellow Streakers. Check out other writer's stories, read and comment! Have you grabbed a badge for your blog yet? Use your social media to share your story.
Stanley the Streaker: I’m here with Eilidh from Thain in Vain and we're talking flash fiction, tips to get started and the upcoming 13 Week Streak – Summer Flash Fiction Challenge hosted by Eilidh and Charlotte from Drafty Devil. Welcome, Eilidh. Great to see you, and I mean all of you! Eilidh: Thanks Stanley! It’s … Continue reading What the heck is flash fiction and do I have to wear pants?
Join us for the 13 Week Streak - Summer Flash Fiction Challenge! Starts June 5. Register by June 2. Charlotte’s favorite summer activities include: drinking coke from a glass bottle, staring into space, and kayaking naked while whistling O Susanna. She’s a writer, among other things. Check her out at Drafty Devil. Eilidh's* (Thain in … Continue reading Meet the streakers behind the streak
Nowadays, you can't swing a cat without hitting some sort of challenge. We're drowning in a Pinterest sea of 30 days to: rock hard abs; totally enlightened meditation; juice yourself skinny; become a travel blogger; craft yourself silly for a month, and on and on. Well, I'm here to officially toss a challenge into the … Continue reading Take the challenge you may actually finish – just sayin’
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Poet TS Eliot said, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” He was right. Mine ended alone on the crumpled side of 140 kilometres per hour, with a hollow, gurgled sob into the tranquil night.
Flash Fiction Challenge! Week 36 submissions are in! Check them out! Submit your week 37 flash fiction by September 16, 2014! Post a link to your submission in the comments section of the corresponding weekly prompt. Week 37 Prompt: Infinite Jest Want to be part of the challenge? Tell me you are participating by leaving … Continue reading Flash Fiction Challenge – Prompt 37 – #FFC52
Flash Fiction Challenge This week’s prompt was brought to you by damn good writer Mark Gardner of Article 94! Prompt 25: Your protagonist is a member of jury about to hear the sentencing of the criminal you just convicted Nature Made Me Do It By Eilidh Thain Judge J.E. Owl called the court to order … Continue reading Nature Made Me Do It
Flash Fiction Challenge Writing prompt: “I’d seen some big ones in my time, but this one…..this one was huge.” The Visitor By Eilidh Thain A loud thud woke Henry Jelto with a start. The glass of scotch resting on his crotch tumbled to the floor. He watched as the golden fluid absorbed into the sun-faded … Continue reading The Visitor – Flash Fiction Challenge 24 #FFC52
Flash Fiction Challenge Writing prompt: The first men/women to set foot on Mars return to their ship only to find a large, strange insect on the door of the ship. Knight Rider: Mars Edition By Eilidh Thain “Come in Rover KATT,” said Matthew Knight as he scanned the bank of monitors for signs of the … Continue reading Knight Rider: Mars Edition – Flash Fiction Challenge 23 #FFC52
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