Little did I know how addictive these things could get. A short work, less than 500 words… no long term commitment… what’s not to love? This week’s prompt: The kicker: 150 words, exactly. Bottleneck The battle had raged for hours, but the small defensive force had brought the invading army to a halt. For three […]
Read More Flash!Friday #49In part 1, we discussed the basic building blocks of poetry, rhythm emotion and meaning and their relationship to words, but now its time to talk to their relationship to each other. How does rhythm convey emotions? How do emotions color meaning? How does rhythm affect meaning? Funny you should ask. The most basic, fundamental […]
Read More Poetry Part 2 – OverviewFriday Fictioneers is a writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – the challenge: write a story in 100 words, based on an image. Dust Made Stone. Some say the old gods died long ago. Some, they say, were reborn with different names, only to die again. Hermes became Mercury, Eros became Cupid only to be […]
Read More Friday Fictioneers – 2013-11-08This story was written for the first “Race the Date” a flash fiction challenge, (a weekly flash fiction contest hosted by Cara Michaels ) The Universal Truth of Time Travel They say that time travel is difficult, if not impossible, but they have never tried to conjugate a verb into the pluperfect-past-participle, present indicative, future […]
Read More Flash Fiction Challenge – Race the Date #1Race The Date Race The Date Join Cara Michaels for ‘Race the Date’ flash fiction contest , click on the link for details Today’s prompt: Time Travel.
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