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#WritePhoto – Mists

14 Dec 2017 40 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fiction, Mists, Photo Prompt

Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken.

Ken sat staring out across the fields, deep in thought, as the sun began to set. Mists clouded his vision, as the hours passed, so he closed his eyes and began to ponder…

Did she really love him, or was she taking him for a total fool? He wracked his brains daily, trying to fulfil her every need and dream, and nothing was ever enough…

Maybe it was time.

Time to join his boys back in the dating ring.

There were plenty of other girls out there; take Sindy, she was always giving him the eye. Sweet, simple Sindy. She looked like the appreciative type. She’d love all his attempts at showing his affection.

“Ken! Mate! Wake up!”

“What?!” Joey hadn’t been with him under the tree? Ken opened his eyes in confusion.

“Mate, you are red as a lobster, man!” Slowly the mist-like steam cleared and the silhouette of his best mate became clearer. “You know you’re only meant to be in here for, like, half an hour at a time! You’ve been sat in here for 3 hours!”

It all came back to him… They’d come to the gym for a workout, and sauna, and were meant to be meeting the girls for drinks in the bar after.

“And you need to get your skates on… Barbie’s screwing out there! She’s been waiting for you for the last 20 minutes!” Joey left the sauna, and more steam escaped with him.

Barbie? Kept waiting? Oh man, he was really going to get it in the neck tonight!

To be continued…

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#WRITESPIRATION #145 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 50 – Naughty Santa @sacha_black

13 Dec 2017 23 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black, Sacha De Black, Santa, Sprouts, The Naughty List

Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt this week:

Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

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This week I want you to write about how Santa ended up on the naughty list

Drat, thought Santa… no one got me any presents this year!
His stocking was forlornly empty.
“Don’t be looking all sorry for yourself!” snapped his wife. “You were on the naughty list straight away after last year!”
“Why? What did I do?” he asked.
“That stench you left after all those sprouts!”

http://sachablack.co.uk/2017/12/13/writespiration-145-52-weeks-in-52-words-week-50/

December 7 – Flash Fiction – Performance – Nativity

08 Dec 2017 49 Comments

by Ritu in #CarrotRanch, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #CarrotRanch, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Charli Mills, Children, Flash Fiction, Nativity, Performance, School

Charli’s prompt this week:

December 7, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write that features a performance. You can interpret what is a performance any way the prompt leads you.

December 7 Flash Fiction Challenge at Carrot Ranch @Charli_Mills

Well, being as I work in school teaching, this time of year is filled with performances! We have the Nursery Christmas singing to parents, the Reception Nativity, the KS1 alternative Nativity, then Lower KS 2 and Upper KS 2 hold their performances of Christmas songs from around the world too!

I am personally involved in the Nursery and Reception performance preparations this year, and I have to say, my throat is hurting from the over singing we have to do, to compensate for the vast majority of the kids who stand and do nothing!

So it goes without saying that my piece for the week would be influenced by my day job!

Nativity

“Come on children, nice and loud now! Please no shouting – it’s singing we want to hear.”
Mrs Keeble started the intro on the school piano, and nodded to the class in front of her.
As usual, there were the performers: the children who thought they were born for the stage. There were the skulkers: the ones who stood at the back, heads down, hoping no one would notice them. And then there were the stunned: the ones who stood there, gawping, no sound leaving their mouths, eyes scanning the audience for family.
Wonderful!
Welcome to another infant Christmas performance!

https://carrotranch.com/2017/12/07/december-7-flash-fiction-challenge/

#WritePhoto – Portal

08 Dec 2017 39 Comments

by Ritu in #WritePhoto, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #WritePhoto, Barbie and Ken, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Fiction, Photo Prompt, Portal

Sue’s #WritePhoto Prompt this week:

I thought I’d continue the adventures of Barbie and Ken. A little limerick-al today!

Said Barbie to Ken one day
“I don’t want to go that way
That portal looks dirty,
No, don’t get all flirty
If my shoes get ruined, you’ll pay!”

Said Ken to Barbie ” Oh Babe,
Just trust me please, I pray
Just through there we’ll go
And you’ll find the snow
I’m sure there’s even a sleigh!”

“Just kill me now,” she said
“Oh God, I’d rather be dead
Than to sit on a crate
With your dressed up mate!”
And she left Ken scratching his head

“These women are too hard to please
Said Ken, “She can be such a tease”
“I’ve tried everything.
I really can’t win
Is it time to find a new squeeze?”

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To be continued… Will Ken give up??? Has Barbie lost her man???

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#WRITESPIRATION #144 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 49 – Waterfall Secrets @sacha_black

06 Dec 2017 18 Comments

Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt this week:

Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

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This week I want you to write about what lays behind a waterfall.

The stench was coming from behind the curtain of water falling ahead of them.
“What do you think, Inspector?”
DI Jones looked at the waterfall. They’d looked everywhere else.
“Get the team to go in.”
***
A few hours later, three body bags lay in front of him.
What a hiding place!

http://sachablack.co.uk/2017/12/06/writespiration-144-52-weeks-in-52-words-week-49/