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FFF #17 – Skinny Love

02 Sep 2015 22 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction Foray, skinny love, Thinspiration

Tuesday heralds the event hosted by Matt The Book Blogger. A song as a prompt, and a 100 word maximum Flash Fiction piece! I love thus!
Read more here!

This week the song Skinny Love by various artists…
I must admit I’d never really known this song before… Haunting…

And my effort today…

Thinspiration

“C’mon Love, eat up!” Da placed a plate filled with his famous roast lamb, and all the trimmings. You know, succulent lamb with mint sauce, golden roast potatoes, 3 vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, gravy. It smelled divine. I just want to grab my cutlery and eat it all up. But the voices from the web…”Really? Will he even look at you if you are fat?” “You want those carbs…really?” “Think thin!”

Da was looking over at me, concern brimming from his eyes. “Please love, have some, it’s your favourite.” He placed his hand on mine. “You’re looking far too skinny, love.”

Just a little thought harking back to those thinspiration sites that have been clogging up the web, and the effects they are having on these young girls, and boys.

Hope you enjoyed!

FFF #16 Happy

26 Aug 2015 23 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction, Happy

Flash fiction time!
Check out the challenge by Matt The Book Blogger here!
Its Happy by Pharrell Williams this time!
Gay (Happy)
The ice melted in his glass as he slowly rotated it. It was bad enough that he was here, in the same room as her, but on top of that, he’d walked into the bar, and there they were, celebrating. She’d seen him and called out to him, “Come on over Jim!” He’d thought about ignoring her but too many of the others had sent him and that would just be too rude.
So, here he was, pretending to be happy, watching the woman he loved, celebrate her engagement, to a woman.
Why could he never read the signals right?

FFF #15 – Send In The Clowns

18 Aug 2015 19 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, flash fiction today, send in the clowns, the book blogger

Yes, you know it’s Tuesday, and that means Flash Fiction Foray time with Matt The Book Blogger!
As always he chooses a song as a prompt and we have to write a short 100 word piece of fiction…
Find out about it here.

“Send In The Clowns” by Judy Collins

Here goes!

Top talent judge Diamond Prowell sat next to his co-judges Felicia Vixen, Samantha Bolden and Wavid Dalliams, waiting for the next act. He’d had singing monkeys, dancing geriatrics, a number of extraordinary magicians amongst others. There had been extraordinary acts, but who was going to win? The standards were high, the competition fierce, but Diamond couldn’t help but think… Really? Is this the kind of thing Her Majesty, The Queen really wants to see? Or maybe they’re going about it all wrong?

Should we go old school?

Find jesters?

Diamond thought…. A new show idea… “Bring On The Clowns!”

I hope you enjoyed it… Now go on, have a go yourself!!!

Flash Fiction Foray #14 – Come On England!

11 Aug 2015 29 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Barmy Army, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Come On England, cricket, fff, Flash Fiction Foray

Yup yup, it’s FFF time again!

This week The Book Blogger, Matt, has the cricket in mind and has given us Come On England by the Barmy Army.

Check it out here!

Well, here is my offering this week.. Loosely based on reality. My brother was a player for Warwickshire when he was younger, we’re Indian, cricket runs in our blood, apparently, but still I had/have no interest in the game…! Unless it’s a gripping last few overs!

I buried my head into my book as deep as I could. It was a great storyline, and as I was gripped by curiosity, time and again, the roar from my family would drag me back to reality.

Yup, I was the sole non-cricket supporter, in a full on Barmy Army family. No match missed… And if England were playing, there was no hope.

I couldn’t even slip to my room… My father insisted we sit as a family to support our nation.

But secretly, the lure of those last few balls, even got me hooked!

Come On England!!!!!

Howzat!!!!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Flash Fiction Foray #13 Waterloo Sunset

05 Aug 2015 22 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, fff, Flash Fiction Foray, the kinks, waterloo subset

Matt has the Flash Fiction Foray going on again!
We’re at number 13 already, how’d that happen Matt??!! Still, I’m proud to say I have taken part in each one! 🙂
This time the prompt is Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks.
Read up on the challenge here!

London’s Very Own Cinderella

What a night! But she wasn’t meant to stay out so late! The drinks had been flowing, the music was pumping, and though she had promised herself that she would be back home by midnight, the pull of the beats was far too strong…

She slumped onto the small ledge of a seat in the shelter and looked around. Waterloo station in the background, the dim light of the sun, starting to rise… She’d arrived in London in such style, as the sun set last night, and here she was, waiting for the night bus, watching a Waterloo Sunrise instead.