FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

Doorknobs & BodyPaint

Guides and Prompts
From the Archives Issue 58 Work

Work.  It does or it doesn’t.  We do or we don’t.  Work that is.  Some of us do it without thinking, a bit like working in the dark.  Some of us never stop thinking about it, 24/7.  It consumes us.  We never stop talking about it.  We are always engaged in some form of it.  

TAPAS  (tiny morsels)

1.  Maximum length:  250 words.

2.  The sub-theme is:  task.

3. Within the story, you must use this bit of text:  force times.

4. Like seasoning, it is language that makes your story unique. Surprise us

Write a story and post it in comments or send it to DOORKNOBS & BODYPAINT
doorknobsand bodypaintandbodypaint@gmail.com

FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

DOORKNOBS & BODYPAINT 65 ARCHIVES

Guides & Prompts

You are in love.  You wake in the morning and the first thought is of your beloved.  And, your last thought at night is lover.  Then the inexplicable happens.  You are separated, maybe by family, maybe by work, maybe war.  It doesn’t matter the cause.  What matters is the separation, how to endure it.  What matters is how to make contact.  What matters is being together again.

TAPAS  (tiny morsels)


1.  Maximum length:  250 words.


2.  The sub-theme is: apprehension. 


3. Within the story, you must use this bit of text:  between different plates.


4. Like seasoning, it is language that makes your story unique. Surprise us. 

Write a story and post it in comments or send it to DOORKNOBS & BODYPAINT
doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

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GUIDES & PROMPTS

DOORKNOB & BODYPAINT ARHIVES

ISSUE 60

Financial problems abound.  Personal problems grow daily.  The environment is eroding from under our feet with glaciers melting, floods, and earthquakes. You have tried everything to bring about a change except one.  You have resisted calling on your personal saint.  After all, you don’t really believe you have one.  But, finally, things are so bad that you buy a candle, light it, call out “Help!” and wait for results.  And, what results, everything changes. Write a story about any saint/s (including the New Orleans Saints) and the miracles they make/do. 

DOORKNOBS

1. Maximum length: 250 words.
2. The sub-theme is: miraculous.

3. The year is:  1943.

4. Within the story, you must use this text:  exceptional deeds.


To share your story with us, place it in comments.  Or, send it to the Cairo Room at Doorknob & BodyPaint doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

 HAYWARD FAULT LINE (shake us up)

DOORKNOBS & BODYPAINT, ISSUE 59
GUIDES & PROMPTS

"Hot August Nights" where people, no matter how good or how smart, find that life can be treacherous and betrayal inevitable and that neither goodness nor smartness can help them. 

1. Maximum length: 450 words.

2. The sub-theme is: restrained.

3. The setting is: Toyko.

4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text: of an emulsion.

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