Tag: Flash Fiction

I swear I was not on anything when I wrote this. This story had been building in the back of my mind for a couple of days, but when I sat down to actually write it, it took a shape I hadn’t expected. It’s closer to poetry than prose, I think. I won’t deny that […]

I think the issue that I’ve had with these restrictions is that they lacked something. Some kind of personality, I think. They’re very generic, so they informed the story less than they could have done. Any one would have been all right, but the combination of all of them together caused the collective to fall […]

This one is, was, and always will be kind of ridiculous. It’s the technical restriction – the end result is like the narrator has language Tourette’s. I ended up keeping it quite short, for the sake of my sanity as much as yours. As a point of interest, I used twelve different languages – Afrikaans, […]

Finally, amiright? It’s only been nine months. There’s not much I can say about this one. I rushed it because I needed the weight off my neck, so I don’t think it turned out as well as it could have. And I’m not convinced I nailed the technical restriction. But it ended up going in […]

Has it already been almost six weeks? Time flies, doesn’t it? Well, as promised, The Man Who Had No End of Garden Fence Troubles got written eventually, and I took my time with writing it (although it didn’t take the full six weeks, just a couple of days – busy busy, other things, blah blah […]

I can’t say I’m liking the new premise restriction. I’ll stick it out for the next three weeks, just in case this last week won’t be the standard, but at this point, I doubt it will last longer than that. Title: The Idea Nexus Premise: A group of friends on a 9 day cruise notice the […]

About time, huh? Couldn’t agree more. Actually, this challenge (I can hardly call it this week’s challenge) has me thinking about possibly changing the format. I’m still not 100% on it, so keep tuned for the next round of restrictions which will go up on Monday and explain the change (if it happens). But I will […]

It’s here, finally, and it’s short. That’s all I have to say about that really. Title: Two Miles Later Genre: Thriller Dialogue: “911, what is your emergency?! Oh, it’s you …” Technical: You should write the story from the perspective of someone watching a camera feed and relaying instructions. Stay tuned for next week’s restrictions tomorrow. Hopefully this one […]

What’s this? The new challenge story? On a Thursday? Yeah, how about that, huh? Well, I actually managed to not leave writing the story until the last minute this time (yay me). Plus it practically wrote itself, but I’ve a few things I want to say about writing it so I’m going to explain what I […]

I’ve had a very busy week, and when I haven’t been busy, I’ve been preoccupied, so I’ve not had a whole lot of time for this week’s story. So when you read this week’s story, you might think it’s a cop out, but I prefer to think of it as a liberal interpretation of the […]