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Showing posts with label 2023 Prompt #12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2023 Prompt #12. Show all posts
Monday, 26 June 2023

'How To Train Your Diary' by Jaime Bree

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The diary flew across the room seemingly on the trajectory of the bookcase, but it didn't succeed, instead it embedded itself into the w...

'Regret at the End of a Jagged Path' by Suzanna Lundale

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Mort nosed his way through the sack of refuse, contemplating the jagged path a once-eminent Time Magus had taken through the sands of time t...

'Soft Boiled' by Donna M Day

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I look down at my descendants with shame. I ensnared the sands of time in the hourglass and controlled everything and those idiots use that ...

'It Gets Everywhere' by Annette Willsch

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Sand everywhere. I comb it from my hair, I blow it from my nose, I rub it from my eyes. It chafes on my skin. It’s between the sheets, makin...
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'Dawlish Beach' by Sarah Oakes

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  We sit on this beach where the red cliffs soar and the railway dips its toes into the sea, and my mother talks of the sands of time, and h...
Sunday, 25 June 2023

'Grit' by Sharon Boyle

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On a busy Cannes beach. Alone. Marriage over. Future hazy. Sands of time whisper through his fingers. Sand that used to be solid rock.  The ...

'The Boy in the Valley' by T. A. Benefield

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The young pharaoh had been taken much too soon. The usual rites and preparations were hastily carried out, falling short of the dynasty’s hi...

'Only Three Minutes to Break(up)fast' by Mairead Robinson

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You like your yolks soft, pollen sticky and sun-bright runny. I lower them in. ‘Go on,’ I say, as I flip the egg-timer.  ‘It’s just time I n...
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'Colours' by Stella Turner

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If I had to describe myself in colours it would be yellow, orange and their vibrant hues said my best and only friend Sue, like the sands of...
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'Scar Tissue' by Catherine O'Brien

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He owns a scar. He’s crouched by her azaleas. Imperious memories hike languidly through the sands of time as she uses the other to insert a ...

'Reflections of Us' by Karen Walker

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  Everywhere on the beach are tiny mirrors, the summer sands of time.      In them, we are young and swirly. How do we look ? we ask the b...

'Living The Cliché' by Lynda Mcmahon

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Where do clichés come from? Do they start out as startlingly clever bon mots just to dwindle into the banal and boring? Perhaps they imagine...

'Shifting Sands' by Laura Cooney

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               We are on the shore and I look at my daughter as she talks to imaginary mermaid friends. She has such intensity, like they’re...
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'Joan Takes Control' by Suzanne de Kort

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  Joan has been running for as long as she can remember, chasing dandelion fluff hovering out of reach.   Reality shifts and splits. Mark fe...

'The Trusting Instinct' by Abha Iyengar

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“Please wait, Sir,” Grace said, “I have your payment right here.” I saw her rummaging through her desk drawer. I stood there, large-brimmed ...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

NFFD 2023 Prompt #12: Sands of Time

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  Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology theme of time.  Throughout Nat...