Tag Archives: Flash Fiction for aspiring Writers

FFfAW Challenge-Week of September 19, 2017 – When the Lights Went Out

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Michael

Image: Pamela S. Canepa. No one was sure why it was in the middle of the day the lights all went out.  Well, save for a few cars and the emergency lighting in the buildings around. Aliens was the initial … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of September 12, 2017 – Shiv’s Brilliant Blooms.

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Michael

Shiv sat back proud as punch and with every right to be so. The hard work he’d put into his plants had paid off by being announced as the winner of Joy’s Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Flower competition. Little … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of September 5, 2017 – The Right Hand Enabling Act.

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Michael

Image: artycaptures.wordpress.com. There was an uproar when the right hand enabling act came into law. The lefties reeled in disgust that their left-handedness was being outlawed. Was the world to return to the persecution of all the left-handed folk? The … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of August 29, 2017 – Humiliated

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Michael

Image with thanks to Jade M. Wong It was true she had to admit that he had broken her heart, pierced through it with his act of deliberate humiliation. It was a set up in which he led her to … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of July 25, 2017 – Fin the Fisherman

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Michael

Image: The Storyteller’s Abode. Fin the fisherman had slept in. He was in the midst of a nightmare when his alarm went off. In his dream, he was out fishing. Nets were cast and as he wound them in he … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of July 18, 2017 – Brand’s Steps

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Michael

Image: JS Brand Part of my exercise routine each day was to run up Brand’s Steps on the far edge of the park. They were sandstone blocks laid by convicts over a hundred years ago and back then the top … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of July 11, 2017 – A Sigh of Relief.

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Michael

Image: Grant-Sud. “I can see your house from up here,” said the higher to the lower. “Not if you jump you won’t,” replied the lower looking up at his friend. “You’ve got pigeon crap all over your roof.” “Yeah I … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of July 4, 2017 #2 – Snake in the Grass

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Michael

Photo prompt is provided by Kecia Spartin She was a real snake in the grass. Untidy, loud, crass, neglectful and purveyor of whoreish ways. You’d see her leaning against the bank wall watching the customers come and go. Waiting always … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of June 27, 2017 – The Bunyip Will Get You

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Michael

Image: Mark with @any1mark66. My mother would shriek telling us the bunyip would get us if we didn’t behave. We loved to play along the creek that ran behind our place. It was an adventure wonderland as there was no … Continue reading →

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FFfAW Challenge-Week of June 20, 2017 – We Might Be Lucky

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Michael

Image: Footy and Foodie. Dad sat glumly at breakfast. It was going to be another stinker of a day. Hot days were hard work on the farm. A year ago, on a day not unlike the one looming there had … Continue reading →

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