August 23- Flash Fiction – Bottleneck

Charli’s prompt this week:

August 30, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a bottleneck. You can be literal or use the term to describe congestion. Go where the prompt leads.

Word Jam
Words.
Snippets.
Stories.
Poems.
Novels.
The ideas were just pouring out of my mind, my heart, my soul, and I didn’t know where to start.
No, that’s not right.
I knew where to start, I just couldn’t work out where to stop, how to organise the thoughts rushing through me.
My fingers danced across the keyboard, letters appearing, filling pages and pages.
Faster and faster they came, until-
They stopped.
I knew there was more to come out, but it was as if the impatience of my ideas had caused a bottleneck in my brain.
Time for the muse…

https://carrotranch.com/2018/08/31/august-30-flash-fiction-challenge/

29 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Carol anne's avatar manyofus1980
    Sep 26, 2018 @ 05:43:11

    Brill xox ❤

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  2. Norah's avatar Norah
    Sep 09, 2018 @ 06:34:04

    Love this, Ritu!

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  3. Abhijit Ray's avatar Abhijit Ray
    Sep 06, 2018 @ 13:36:48

    Then you hit a bottleneck in your mind. Nice!

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  5. Charli Mills's avatar Charli Mills
    Sep 05, 2018 @ 03:34:59

    Argh! You brilliantly captured the bottleneck in every writer’s brain, Ritu! I like how the words flow at first…just like real life. 😀

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  6. Kelvin M. Knight - Short Story Writer's avatar Kelvin M. Knight's blog
    Sep 03, 2018 @ 14:01:21

    Loved the effect these words had on your narrator. So come so thick and fast as to not be able to stop them, then, full stop. (Sorry).

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  7. robbiesinspiration's avatar robbiesinspiration
    Sep 02, 2018 @ 20:53:19

    Jolly good idea, Ritu.

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  8. OIKOS™- Art, Books & more's avatar OIKOS™-Redaktion
    Sep 02, 2018 @ 11:34:44

    So true. This always revolves without need. 😉 Michael

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  9. syl65's avatar syl65
    Sep 01, 2018 @ 22:28:31

    Definitely been there Sister!

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  10. Jennie's avatar Jennie
    Sep 01, 2018 @ 12:42:57

    Well done, Ritu!

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  11. willowdot21's avatar willowdot21
    Aug 31, 2018 @ 23:44:55

    Excellent Sis very clever 💜💝

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  12. Annette Rochelle Aben's avatar Annette Rochelle Aben
    Aug 31, 2018 @ 21:54:51

    Bottle neck in your brain… great visual and there are darn few of us who would NOT understand this. Brilliantly done!

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