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Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #7. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

'Flying to Aotearoa' by Val Harris

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Above the land of the long white cloud, where the sky is blue, and it laughs aloud; where a sunshine path arcs east to west. Moving on and o...

'Coming of Age' by Sue Smith

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When Luke is five his mother gives him a picture of a tree. Silver brown branches carry a myriad of leaves. Luke traces the outline with his...

'The Rose at the Ends of the Earth' by Donna M Day

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If you find it, it’s because you’ve been asleep for so long, you’re not going to wake again, at least in this world. You will know it on sig...
Monday, 17 June 2024

'The Last Day on Earth' by Cheryl Markosky

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She doesn't put chia seeds on her yoghurt or go to the gym. She doesn't do downward dog, the Sudoku or sort the recycling.  She igno...

'Rewilding' by Rosaleen Lynch

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We watch Ma crying at the telly, not a soppy movie with someone in happy-ever-after-love but it's about a farm with problems that a cart...

'And Now It's Here' by Allison Renner

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We line up two by two, ready to board the ship. There is no flood this time, only parched land beneath our feet. Crunch, crackle, as we step...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

'Karaoke' by Melissa Flores Anderson

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We’re at karaoke for some team-building event. I like to sing but not in front of people. It’s kind of my worst nightmare to be up on stage ...

'A million tiny cuts' by Lucy Brighton

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I walk to the end of the earth. It’s only twelve steps. Step thirteen would take me Beyond and I can’t go there. I’ve tried.  Before my worl...

'Come on in, the water’s radioactive' by Madeleine Armstrong

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The spills began on the first day of August, the start of the summer holidays, but we didn’t find out until weeks later. As soon as she fini...

'Repent at Leisure'' by John King

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As catastrophes go it wasn’t that bad. Yet. Was I the only one on the peninsula who knew there was a countdown? 9 years to zero, decade, top...

'Bhoomi Devi, the Great Earth Mother Has Had Enough' by Sumitra Singam

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Bhoomi Devi found a pull in her jumper, and because she was out shopping, she didn’t attend to it immediately. This meant the pull caught on...
Saturday, 15 June 2024

NFFD 2024 Prompt #7: Ends of the Earth

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    Prompt #7: Ends of the Earth EARTH prompt B Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2024 National Flash Fiction...