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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

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 # 11 Feelin’ Good

22 Jul 2015 16 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, feeling good, fff, Flash Fiction

Oh you know I love this challenge!
It’s Flash Fiction Foray time!
Matt , The Book Blogger, has a weekly challenge, where he gives us a song prompt, to write a 100 word Flash Fiction piece…
This week, the inspiration comes from the song “Feeling Good” by many artists, over the years, but personally, for me, it has to be Nina Simone!

Read more about the challenge here.

Selfie Culture

She peeled herself of the floor.

It had been an exhausting day, and to top it off, this session was, well, the icing on the cake… Gulping half her bottle of water down, she wiped the sweat from her brow, and turned to look at herself in the mirror… Sucking her breath in, and holding her stomach tight, she looked pretty thin. She quickly got out her phone, it was never far away, and pouted as she quickly took a selfie.

Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Yup it was uploaded everywhere.

10 minutes later, 136 likes already! Yeah… she was feeling good!

Done! Hope you like it Matt!

FFF #9 I’m Gonna Be

07 Jul 2015 18 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Flash Fiction

Flash fiction time!!!!

Matt of The Book Blogger blog, has a weekly flash fiction challenge, where he gives us a song title for inspiration, to write a 100 word piece of fiction …
This week, the classic, “I’m Gonna Be” by The Proclaimers

“I’m gonna be ok,” she said, “I’m gonna be just fine… It’s just a little blood, I can cope!” The wave of queasiness washed over her again. What in the world had convinced her that that she could do this? The humanitarian in her had stepped up as soon as she had heard of the awful tragedy. There were injured people everywhere, they needed help, but there wasn’t enough medical support, so she offered… After all she had her first aid certificate… But dealing with a grazed knee at school, was a little different to dealing with the victims of a terrorist attack…

This piece is in memory of those victims of the London 7/7 attack… And to those Samaritans who did step up to help…

Flash Fiction Foray- Fly Me To The Moon

10 Mar 2015 10 Comments

by Ritu in Fiction Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Foray, Short Story, writing

A relatively new blogger, The Book Blogger, has started a new fiction challenge with a tag, where you get a song title, and write flash fiction of about 100 words based around the song.
This week, Frank Sinatra’s ‘Fly Me To The Moon’… Here is my Flash Fiction Foray!

‘Fly Me To The Moon’ the sign said, hanging around the strange creature’s neck…
‘I want to go back home’, it continued.
So, this was what they looked like, the men on the moon. Kind of hairy for my liking, but he had good handwriting!
I tossed a few coins into his bowl… I don’t know how far it would get him, but hey maybe, once he got there, he’d remember the stranger who helped him a part of the way home, and send a spaceship for me to come visit.
Who knows, while I’m there, I might get to see what spring is like on Jupiter or Mars!