Written for OLWG #397.
Our three prompts appear below.
This is my flash.
Category: Flash
Le Bourgeois
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Santa Baby
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #116.
This week’s prompt word is “blind”. I thought this image from Kevin
at No Theme Thursday worked quite well. This is my 6 word story.
Another World
Written for Friday Fictioneers. Our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.

Things were easier then, life was different. Kids felt safe in their little bubbles. I’d cycle to my piano lessons, cutting through the empty lot without a shred of fear.
I’d ring the bell for my lesson; if my teacher didn’t answer immediately, I’d wait on the bench. One time I waited so long, I was about to leave when the door flew open and a girl came running out, sobbing, her clothes a disheveled mess. My teacher called out after her.
My only reason for ever feeling fear was the way my piano teacher looked at me that day.
NAR©2024
100 Words
This is “Wash Away Those Years” by Creed
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Yo Ho
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #393
incorporating the word “occident” in exactly 23 words.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge
(red) and FOWC (vague). In exactly 23 words, this is my flash.
Just Our Luck!
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #115.
This week’s prompt word is “fortune”. Here is my 6 word story.
Obsolete
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host
Rochelle asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Finally Sixteen
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #114.
This week’s prompt word is “freedom”. Here is my 6 word story.
Devastation
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #392
incorporating the word “swarm” in a composition of 10 words.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts – The One Day
Prompt (8). In exactly 10 words, this is my flash.
Late Night News
Esther asks: “Can you tell a story in 28 words?”,
using these four words: dynamic, mold, spoon and video.
Yes, I think I can! Here’s my 28 word story.
Tis The Season
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. Also in response to Gerry & Sue’s
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge where the prompt word
this week is ‘frenzied’. This is my 100 word flash.
Paternal Pardon
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #391
incorporating the word “vicinity” in exactly 50 words.
Also for FOWC – ‘traditional’, FOWC – ‘doubt’ and
Gerry C & Sue W’s Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge
– ‘nurturing’. In exactly 50 words, this is my flash.
Holding Out Til Spring
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #113.
This week’s prompt word is “resilience”. Here is my 6 word story.
Sticky Fingers
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Fly, My Pretties!
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #112.
This week’s prompt word is “childhood”. Here is my 6 word story.
Power Trip
Written for “Can You Tell A Story In…” –
Esther asks: “Can you tell a story in 23 words?”
We must use these three words in what we write:
‘quinoa’, ‘ferret’, and ‘thwart’. Here’s my 23 word story.
Seeing Red
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #390
incorporating the word “diamond” in exactly 19 words
and based on a true event I’ll never forget. Here’s my flash.
The Continuing Adventures of George and Martha, Vol. 5: Child’s Play
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Enough’s Enough
Shweta is our host for the Saturday Six Word Challenge – #111.
This week’s prompt word is “believe”. Here is my 6 word story.
Dinner Date
Esther asks: “Can You Tell A Story In….?” This week’s challenge
is to include the words “dentist”, “elegant”, “trout” and “pocket”
in a story of exactly 30 words. Here’s my 30 word story.
Paying the Price
It’s time for a “Full Frontal Fandango Flash”!
Written for the following Fandango challenges:
FOWC 11/6 (cottage), FOWC 11/7 (participate),
FOWC 11/8 (initiative) and FOWC 11/9 (implicit).
Here is my Fandango One-Word Challenge4 flash.
Slim Pickings
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #389
incorporating the word “hunter” in exactly 99 words.
Also responding to Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts
Wednesday Challenge (“duplicity”) and Sue & Gerry’s
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (“method”).
For further inspiration, I am using one of the amazing
graphic prompts created by Kevin at No Theme Thursday.
Here is my 99 word flash.
Selling Point
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.
Feeling Lucky
Written for Sammi’s Weekly Writing Prompt #388
in exactly 21 words and incorporating the word “dark”
and for Sue W & Gerry C’s Weekly Prompts Colour
Challenge using the word “grey”. Here is my flash.
Beautiful Boy
Written for d’Verse Prosery where the challenge is to write
a piece of flash fiction of no more than 144 words that includes
the following quotation from “Out Of The Cradle” by Walt Whitman:
“Out of the Ninth-month midnight”. This is my flash.
Before Day Is O’er
Written for Saturday Six Word Story #120
where Shweta offers up the word “hope”
as our inspiration …. one of the most
beautiful words in any language.
Here are my six words.
The Day the Music Died
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
has asked us to use the image below as inspiration
to get creative in 100 words or less, making
every word count. Here’s my flash.
Tout Doucement
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #387 and
Sue W & Gerry C’s Weekly Prompts – The One Day Prompt #7,
incorporating the words ‘unexpected’ and ‘one day’
written in exactly 15 words. This is my 15-word flash.
The Continuing Adventures of George and Martha, Vol. 4: Sea of Love
Written for Friday Fictioneers where our host Rochelle
has asked us to use the photo below as inspiration
to get creative in 100 words or less,
making every word count. Here’s my flash.

Dear Ryan
Written for Kevin’s No Theme Thursday 10.17.14 photo prompt,
Sammi’s 94 word Weekend Writing Prompt #386,
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
and Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge.
Responses must be exactly 94 words (for Sammi), including
‘teach’, ‘ahead’ and ‘simplicity’. Here’s my little story.

Doris sat in the kitchen proofreading her letter.
Dear Ryan Seacrest –
Imagine my surprise when I tuned into “Wheel of Fortune” and discovered you’re the new host!
Where the fuck is Pat Sajak? He could teach you a few things about show business! You have a nice smile and might have a future ahead in commercials.
You’re a cutie-pie; I wouldn’t mind a roll in the hay with you, that’s for damn sure. Next time you’re in Wichita, stop by Doris’ Donuts – simplicity at its tastiest!
I’ll keep the light on.
Fondly, Doris Lipsmacker
NAR©2024
94 Words
From 1952, this is “Wheel of Fortune” by Kay Starr
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