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Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #1. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

'Woman, Resplendent' by Julia Ruth Smith

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What if she gets to the fork in the road and thinks fuck it and keeps on going, through the gorse and the pain, with her basket filled with ...
Monday, 17 June 2024

'The girl who cried wolf' by Christina Tudor

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There'd been rumors of wolves circling the outskirts of the village. There'd been rumors that the wolves played tricks on little gir...

Zel in the Ivory Tower by Abida Akram

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 Bored, bored, bored, Zel sang to herself in her ivory tower in the middle of the forest. What a cliché this was. She was already in a castl...

'Lessons in Economics' by Lynda McMahon

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The shoemaker was at his wits end. Business was bad. “It’s these cheap imports. Nobody wants quality anymore. Hand made shoes are a thing of...

'The Castle Yonder' by Srividya Ganapathy

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Cinderella was upset that she wouldn’t be able to go to the ball. As she sadly went about her household chores, she wondered who her step si...

'Yes, we are famed, & you know us as a pantomime of stepsisters' by Kay Medway

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Stepsisters. Seeing us as the perfect storybook pair, you have all had time by now to uncover and agree that we are often the best-placed ch...

'Burden of Knowledge' by Sean Hill

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Fionn bent over the water's edge. If the river looked so absolutely still. When his master Finnegas had cast the line in the shadow-lade...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

'Goldilocks and the Free Pancakes' by Donna M Day

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It all went wrong when Goldilocks broke into the three bears’ house six months early. She wasn’t supposed to break in until after their New ...

'Give Peas a Chance" by Lucienne Cummings

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‘That’s the last time I let you go to the market,’ said Jack’s mother, once upon a time. ‘I can’t believe you’ve gave away our cow!’ Jack lo...

'Purity' by Jennifer Mungham

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Snow White cried as blood the colour of her lips dripped down the side of her face diluted in salty tears and dropped into the leaves below....

'The Further Adventures of the Three Little Pigs' by Jane Jackson

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Several years of cohabitation, the Three Little Pigs' arguments increased. The brick-house had been built for one. None of them were inc...
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'Let Down Your Fettucine' by Athena Law

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This story begins with the reassurance that they all live happily ever after. When I say ‘they’ I of course mean Rapunzel, her husband and t...
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'The Princess and the Peanut' by Luann Castle

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'Stop being so sensitive!' Spittle accompanied the Queen’s words as she hurled a disgusted look at her daughter. 'One needs a th...
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'Little Red and the Wolf' by Lisa Williams

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A rush of wings marked the start of her journey. Black. Dark, as crows rose from the field past Grandma’s house. Trepidation. Would he even ...
Saturday, 15 June 2024

NFFD 2024 Prompt #1: Castles in the Air

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  Prompt #1: Castles in the Air AIR prompt A Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2024 National Flash...