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FFF #23 – Pure Imagination

01 Dec 2015 41 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, fiona apple, Flash Fiction Foray, pure imagination

I can’t believe I’ve been FFF-ing so long! We’ve hit 23 weeks now since Matt at The Book Blogger stsrted this challenge, where we get a prompt song to write a 100 word flash fiction piece.
This week it is a cover of the track Pure Imagination, by Fiona Apple…
Made famous in the original Willy Wonka film, it’s a true favourite of mine!

Check out the prompt here.

Totally broken, I came out of the school.

I couldn’t believe she had lied. All that detail, all those stories, those tears…

I was devastated that my child was going through so much, almost torture, at school and that no one was listening to, or helping her.

In I went, all guns blazing, and really took the Head Teacher to task. My child was being bullied, verbally, physically, and I hadn’t been informed of anything… homework destroyed, lunches stolen…

Only to be told it had been a pure work of her twisted imagination.

It was her who was the bully.

FFF #22 Hello

24 Nov 2015 11 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Adele, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction Foray, Hello, the book blogger

Tuesday means prompt night from.The Book Blogger, Matt, for a piece of flash fictionnot more than 100 words, based on a song prompt of his choice.
This week, is the new Adele song, ‘Hello’.
Check out the prompt here.

Hello…

A small word, isn’t it? But can be filled with so many possibilities.

The sign of new beginnings, a smile, a shake of hand, a chance that a new relationship may blossom.

And that one word started a chain of events so long, that I almost forget it was that one word that started it.

Bye…

An even shorter word…

3 letters that can gut you.

And gut me, they did. I don’t know what I did, but watching you with your bag in your hand, walking down the path, after uttering that word… I felt my world explode….

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Flash Fiction Foray – FFF#21 – Moonlight Sonata

17 Nov 2015 28 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Beethovan, Blog, Blogging, fff, Moonlight Sonata, the book blogger

It’s Tuesday, which heralds the arrival of the Flash Fiction Foray prompt from The Book Blogger, Matt. You can find this week’s post, here.

So, this week we are given the classical piece by Beethovan, Moonlight Sonata.

She stood there, at the window, staring out at the world, bathed in the soft beams of moonlight.

It was still… so still out there, and the quiet. So different to the scenes she had left behind. All that horror, the carnage of Friday 13^th.

What was meant to be a night full of promises, turned into her worst nightmare… She’d arrived there as part of a pair, a couple, romantic and silly, and left there alone…

She opened the window and breathed in the air… and cried… the only sound carrying across the air…A sonata in the moonlight….

FFF #20 You Ruin Me

10 Nov 2015 41 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, fff, Flash Fiction, the book blogger, the veronicas, you ruin me

Tuesday brings the flash fiction event hosted by Matt the Book Blogger. I love this challenge, I’ve taken part in them since Matt stared this challenge! Flash Fiction Foray, or FFF as we lovingly like to call it is a challenge where Matt gives a song as a prompt,,and we need to write a 100 word flash fiction piece based on that song, be it the name, the content, the emotion stirred up by the music…

This week, Matt has chosen ‘You Ruin Me’ by The Veronicas…

It’s funny, but I know I’m getting older now, as I hardly recognise newer songs by the name or artist… Yet I listen to it and think “Oh! That song!” And that was exactly what happened here with this one!

Check out the original prompt here.

Bought

What did you do? How did you do it? At what point did your tentacles, masquerading as love, wrap around me so tightly that I couldn’t wriggle free?

You give me everything, I know. I don’t want for anything at all… apart from your affection.

But now I’ve grown accustomed to this life… All these things…

I want to walk away, I really do. I want to feel the freedom that the others have, but I just can’t take that first step…

You ruin me, and all my good intentions, with every new wrapped gift box you bring each night…

Thank you and goodnight!

FFF #18 – One Day More

04 Nov 2015 21 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: 100 words, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction, les miserables, one more day, thebookblogger

The Book Blogger, Matt’s prompt this week from Les Miserables…. ‘One Day More’…. Check out the challenge here!

“Are you ready?”
Mona looked up at Lisa, eyes full of apprehension. “I don’t know Lees… It’s all happened so fast. Am I really ready?”
It had only been a few short weeks since she made the decision to go to the police with the true story of what had happened that night.
And now here she was, a sack of nerves, knowing she was going to have to stand in front of a court full of people, and tell a bunch of strangers her story…
Still, at least he’d get what he deserved…

Just one day more to wait