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Showing posts with label 2022 Prompt #9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2022 Prompt #9. Show all posts
Monday, 20 June 2022

'The Portrait Confronts the Artist' by Cheryl Snell

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  Where is my belly? I blacked it out . What about the kit and caboodle inside? That, too. It was just a jumble of beginnings . Did you see ...

'Finding Your Letter Again' by Patricia Bender

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  Your letter, from the day everything felt silver, shimmers. Burnished details from Fugard’s play, “The Train Driver,” glow jus...
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Sunday, 19 June 2022

'Omphalos or The Navel of the World' by Lynda McMahon

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  I am Woman. At this stone my sight is strong. I dedicate myself to it. Sacrifice myself. I am Woman. They are Man. They fear me for I see ...

'The Hedgehog Recovery Centre that Changed my Life' by David Lewis

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I bought a house in France to escape my divorce. Clearing around the hut in the garden, I disturbed a hedgehog and two hoglets. The mother c...

'A Lone Tear Trickles' by Catherine O’Brien

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A lone tear trickles but she pleads and her mother reads on. She is enraptured as words drip from her tongue. She is more coordinated than h...

'An Orderly Queue' by Lyndsey Croal

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  You ask them to form an orderly queue, but ghosts have a habit of disorder. They don’t yet understand their forms, drifting into one anoth...

'Vaccination' by Molly Lanzarotta

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  Listen honey, listen girl, don’t marry your first boyfriend. A man is like a missed bus—don’t run after it, another one will be along in a...

'Eleven-e-rife' by Lauren Selcouth

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Have you ever had power over someone? She thinks she’s better than me. I’m a mass of frizzy red hair, clothes more C&A than D&G—aver...
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'Combustion' by Shirani Rajapakse

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  Anger swirled, turning her hair the exact shade of burning flames. They didn’t see fire shoot out of her scalp and cascade down her should...

'A Prayer of Fresh Fish' by Maria Thomas

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She smooths her hands down the vertical stripes of her alb and begins the invocation. “The perfect batter billows like a pillowcase in the b...

'for those who left' by Louise Hurrell

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Your palette sits where you kept it, paint drying in its box like the tears on my tender cheeks. Some of the colours, like my emotions, are ...
Saturday, 18 June 2022

NFFD 2022 Prompt #9: A Picture is Worth...

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9. A Picture is Worth... This is National Flash Fiction Day's eleventh anniversary, so this year, all our prompts have something to do...