FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

Doorknobs & BodyPaint Archives

Guides & Prompts

Issue 66  Work

The work issue is often very personal.  This issue, however, takes work beyond your narrator’s experience and focuses on other people’s work.  Whether it’s watching a small child choose between fireman or baker; whether it’s someone in a mid-life crisis choosing to continue in a profession or start something new; whether it’s an end of life decision of how best to finish one’s life and work, you choose, and then, write your story within the limits of our contest guidelines (hoops):

 HAYWARD FAULT LINE (shake us up) 

1. Maximum length: 450 words.

2. The sub-theme is: restore.

3. The setting is: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
4. Within the story, you must use this bit of text:  back into existence.

Post your story in Comments or send it to the Cairo Room at doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

Doorknob & BodyPaint Archives

Guides & Prompts

from issue 64 All Saints Doorknob category

Shrines spring up in the most unlikely places.  Not just the ones on top of mountains, or the ones along riverbeds, or under trees.  Shrines appear in back allies, where someone has chipped away a brick and inserted a drawing or clay figure in its place; or, yet again, in the desert, soon to be lost to the shifting winds.  Shrines are always coming into being.  We need them.  

So, take a moment and write a story within the guidelines for All Saints.

1. Maximum length: 250 words. 


2. The sub-theme is: hallowed. 


3. The year is:  1925. 


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

Write a story and post it in comments or send it to the Cairo Room at doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

FLASH FICTION FRIDAY

Doorknobs & BodyPaint Archives

Guides & Prompts

from issue 63

It's hot outside. And, inside. You've waited for summer. You've waited for the heat. But, now, you sense the danger of your desires. The sun is setting and with the coming of night, your skin prickles with the danger that lurks behind that closed door, with the mystery of the rising moon, with the temptation of the person in the shadows. You know that control is no longer in your hands. Except in the writing of it. So, take a moment and write a story within the guidelines for Hot August Nights.

DOORKNOBS  


1. Maximum length: 250 words. 


2. The sub-theme is: insidious. 


3. The year is:  1946. 


Write a story and post it in comments or send it to the Cairo Room at doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com

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March 4, Pandemonium Press Presents HOT! NEW BOOKS! Mary Mackey reads from Travelers With No Ticket Home; Indigo Moor reads from Through the Stonecutter's Window; Jon Sindell reads from The Roadkill Collection; and Wayne Goodman reads from The Last Great Hope.  A half hour open mic precedes and follows the featured readers. The series is on the first Wednesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey, 1628 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 6:45-9:00 (pandemoniumpress@gmail.com)