"My feet hurt," Cheryl complained. "How much further?" "We'll be there soon," Daniel replied patiently. "You're the one wearing heels." "Sorry for not expecting to climb a mountain to our holiday home. You bought the house at the top, didn't you?" "It was you who wanted a view." I wrote this in response to fandango's [...]
Tag: #FFFC
WW/FFFC: Disaster
Today should be the happiest of her life. Her wedding day. Yet, here she was with the dress on her knees, crying because everything had collapsed. Her perfect man had deserted her for another woman. I wrote this in response to writing Wednesday and Fandango's flash fiction challenge. I have also made this piece to fit [...]
#FFFC: The shop
Debbie walked to the front of her shop and felt a shock at finding everything covered in newspaper. They weren’t closing down until next week, so confused didn’t even cover her feelings as she felt for the keys in her pocket. Just as her fingers touched the icy edge of the keys her eyes spotted [...]
#FFFC: Proper boring
“You would think they would give us something more inspiring.” The girls sorted out her art materials ready to draw what they had revealed. “I mean, it is just a scarf, some books, a teapot, and the chair.” “You are forgetting the plant.” “It looks like a lettuce shoved in a glass. Even the scarf [...]
#FFFC: Hide and seek
When we were moving house, I discovered a box of old negatives. I held them up the light in curiosity and found the pictures of me and my sister playing hide and seek from years ago. I smiled at the memory of the younger girl running up to me desperate to play. I agreed and [...]
#FFFC: Teddy bears picnic
Written for fandango's flash fiction challenge “Isn’t this just perfect?” Teddy bear complained after being positioned on the chair. “This is supposed to be a teddy bears picnic, and here I am, on the stupidly high chair that I am with two others. I can’t reach the food, what is the point of being here [...]
#FFFC: Grand Designs
He removed the blindfold from his wife’s eyes and waited for her response with a big smile on his face. Emily stared around the room with a growing sense of panic. “This is what you brought? With our life savings? Have you completely lost your mind?” Andy put his head in his hands, his smile faded. [...]
#FFFC: The difference between
The young child pointed excitedly at the book. “Look grandad, this book has a maze on the front of it.” The grandad walked over and picked up the book in question. “Charlie, this is not a maze but a labyrinth.” “What is the difference?” “Well, it is actually very simple. If you look here, there [...]
#FFFC: Destruction
Oh typical, the one I said I wanted to try and write some flash fiction from Alice's point of view I get a photo, with a hand in it! (Alice has no arms!) The two sisters sitting outside as the sun shone on yet another summer’s day. Sharon, the eldest, had just found out how [...]
FFFC: Office timer
This is my first ever attempt at Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge, hope you all enjoy it 🙂 The image below is from Mike at Pexels.com. I don’t know why, but dad’s egg timer always fascinated me. It wasn’t because of the size, all the colours of the grains of sand within. No, it was the [...]