FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

October 24

Guides and Prompts

Doorknob & BodyPaint Archives

Issue 55

Tapas ( tiny morsels)

1. Maximum length: 250 words.
2. The sub-theme is: abandonment.
3. Within the story, you must use this text: leading edge.
4. Like seasoning, it is language that makes your story unique. Surprise us.      

To share with us, place your story in comments.

We are sitting in some dark bar on a Sunday morning. Writing. Or, it’s Wednesday night and we toss our last coins into the abandoned fountain in the garden. On Tuesday, when we eat, we don’t let our different foods touch. We follow our habits or rituals regardless of whether it helps or hinders us in our daily progress? Sometimes it is without thought. Other times, we do them with the most deliberate of thought. But, it doesn't matter which it is. It's August and we are writing under the influence of some nightshade plant. And, we can’t stop. We must take blue pen to yellow paper and write as fast as we can. Because, we know that it is the writing that will save us.