#FridayFlash – Travails

In answer to the Weekly Writing Contest–this week’s prompt was “getting where you’re going”–over at Soft Copy Publishing, I wrote the following: Travails One of these days it’s going to happen. When the line of cars grinds to a...

#FridayFlash from Suicide Notes – #6: Jim

This piece is part of the #SuicideNotes project and was originally written by Richard B. Wood as part of a #5MinuteFiction challenge. He generously offered it to me for this project. I’ve tweaked it so that it fits the style of the other Notes, but the original...

#FridayFlash – Sex Scene: Mr. Necessary

Mr. Necessary first appeared in Sex Scene, available free on Lulu.com: No, oh god no please no please stop. Stop no I need you to stop please I don’t want it I don’t I don’t. Oh god don’t. Don’t, stop no don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t. I spotted him across the...

#FridayFlash from Creative Copy Challenge

Every now and again I get a chance to play along with the Creative Copy Challenge Shane Arthur puts on every Monday and Thursday. I managed to squeak one in yesterday and, as usual, it was very challenging and lots of fun. This week’s words are in bold: It was...

#FridayFlash – Whimsy with Wonderful Words

I wrote this for my son’s fourth grade class. It is well known, throughout all of the elementary schools, that there is no greater group, no grander gathering of germinating potential for glory, than the fourth graders of Mrs. Hewett’s class. One sultry...