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A Bridge Over You – FFF 25

22 Dec 2015 50 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: A Bridge Over You, Blog, Blogging, fff, NHS, the book blogger

It is Tuesday evening which means Flash Fiction Foray Time with Matt the Book Blogger!

Check out his prompt post here.

The song this week, ‘A Bridge Over You’ by The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, released this Christmas, hoping to get to the Christmas #1 spot!

“There you go Mrs Smith, all nice and clean now! Sorry, what was that? Oh yes, I know, I hope your son will get over here this Christmas too. I’ll be here with you as well, don’t you worry. Oh, I can hear another bell, excuse me…

Yes, Mrs Jones, what can I…? Oh, yes I see, let me just adjust your pillow. I know it’s not the same as home, but I’ll try and make you as comfortable as I can… Sorry…”

Bell after bell…. Only one of her and sixteen demanding patients… Thank God she loved her job!

A tribute to our hard working nursing staff.

Stop the Cavalry – FFF #24

15 Dec 2015 23 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Flash Fiction, Jona Lewie, Stop The cavalry, the book blogger

Matt the Book Blogger got me started on flash fiction all those weeks ago, and here I am about to complete the 24th challenge!

Wow!

Check it out here.

The song this week… Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie

Enough

Tears streamed down his dust encrusted face.

He’d had enough.

It had been months and months of relentless ambushes, no breaks, and after weeks of not even thinking, he had looked at his watch, and the date said 25^th Dec…

What he wouldn’t give to be back home, safe in the bosom of his family right now, giving gifts to his children, eating his wife’s usually inedible Christmas dinner, dozing in front of the TV as the Queen spoke…

But no.

He was stuck out here, in the heat of the desert… fighting a battle that didn’t want to end.

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I hope this suits the song… possibly being more serious than the song makes you feel, with it’s jolly beat, but the message, it’s the same…

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!