Category Archives: Flash Fiction

November 17, 2016

Utopia

By Kat Myrman

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As the ruling class had promised, internment camps were established in every district to house the undesirables who were identified and sorted during the great purge, to be kept safe with their own kind: the immigrants, the refugees, the gays, the Muslims, non-Christians, Agnostics and Atheists, single, divorced and widowed women over 21 who did not have the covering of a husband, native peoples, the homeless and the disabled.

Small delegations from each sub-community were given authority to keep the peace, to report dissidents, who were swiftly removed to an undisclosed location and to order basic necessities, such as food and medicine for their respective areas.

It was meant to be a temporary inconvenience until everyone could be registered and vetted sufficiently to re-enter the regime, but the process was long and ridden with changing rules and red tape, and the longer it took, the more comfortable the outcasts became, staying behind their walls with their own kind, where it was safe.

~kat ~ 17 November 2016

For Sonya’s Three Line Tale Challenge based on the photo above by photo by Jace Grandinetti via Unsplash.

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November 15, 2016

Twittering Tales #4 – 15 November 2016

By Kat Myrman

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Please forgive my lapse last Tuesday. I’m afraid I mistakenly thought that the WORLD HAD ENDED! Just kidding! (Maybe…:/)

A little about the challenge:  Each Tuesday I will provide a prompt, and your mission, if you choose to play along, is to tell a story based on that prompt in 140 characters or less.

If you accept the challenge, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale. A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com.

I will do a roundup each Tuesday, along with providing us a new prompt.

Have Fun! 🙂

But here are the results for Twittering Tales #3 based on this photograph from last week:

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Photo From Pixabay.com

“So how does this dueling thing work? Oooh pretty sunset! Let’s just chill instead in the meantime….”  -Kathryn at Another Foodie Blogger

“1….2….3….
their count was ON, as the were firing the shots..and for me an absolute fantastic click for “Diwali” photography contest…” –Sri Sudha K at her blog HERE.

and here’s mine:

They were an unlikely duo, often mistaken for “deplorables”, but they were “nasty”, no doubt about it, staking their claim on Election day.   kat

Geesh…you can call me delusional…it’s okay I can take it! Along those lines, since we already know I am crazy I thought I’d have a bit of fun with this week’s photo prompt. 🙂

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If you’d like to join in the fun this week, here is another photo prompt from Pixabay.com:

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My Twittering Tale for this week:

“The new administration’s energy saving’s plan involves replacing full-sized automobiles with golf carts. It is expected to save billions.”

kat – 15 November 2016
(137 Characters)

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November 1, 2016

Twittering Tales #3 – 1 November 2016

By Kat Myrman

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The results are in for Twittering Tales #2 based on this photograph from last week:

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Boardwalk Crowd of People Walking – Pixabay.com

Thanks to Kathryn and Sudha once again for submitting their flash of twittering fiction.

“Ummm, do I dodge left or right at the oncoming wall?”-Kathryn  at Another Foodie Blogger

He knew what was at the beach. So, he stood staring at the people walking towards the beach, wondering whether to disclose or not??–Sri Sudha K  at her blog HERE.

and here’s mine:

He lost her number, so he scanned each face in the crowd where they met, hoping to find her. He wouldn’t have cared, but she was “the one”.  ~kat

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If you’d like to join in the fun this week, here is another photo prompt from Pixabay.com:

A little about the challenge:  Each Tuesday I will provide a prompt, and your mission, if you choose to play along, is to tell a story based on that prompt in 140 characters or less.

If you accept the challenge, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale. A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com.

I will do a roundup each Tuesday, along with providing us a new prompt.

Have Fun! 🙂

My Twittering Tale for this week:

They were an unlikely duo, often mistaken for “deplorables”, but they were “nasty”, no doubt about it, staking their claim on Election day.   kat ~ 1 November 2016
(139 Characters)

 

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October 25, 2016

Twittering Tales #2 – 25 October 2016

By Kat Myrman

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The results are in for Twittering Tales #1 based on this photograph from last week:

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Thanks to Kathryn and Sudha for submitting their flash of twittering fiction.

Excavators toiled hours hoping to find more specimens for history to preserve and to get some DNA for ancestors. A good day for Pompeii.
-Kathryn  at Another Foodie Blogger

They sat down for dinner, unaware of the result. With their first take, they turned to stones forever. Touchstone soup casted its spell.
–Sri Sudha K  at her blog HERE.

and here’s mine:

It was a grim sight. The first victims of the plague had turned to stone, ghosts who held too tightly to the past, now doomed to repeat it. ~kat

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If you’d like to join in the fun this week, here is the photo prompt from Pixabay.com:

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Boardwalk Crowd of People Walking – Pixabay.com

A little about the challenge:  Each Tuesday I will provide a prompt, and your mission, if you choose to play along, is to tell a story based on that prompt in 140 characters or less.

If you accept the challenge, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale. A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com.

I will do a round up each Tuesday, along with providing us a new prompt.

Have Fun! 🙂

My Twittering Tale for this week:

He lost her number, so he scanned each face in the crowd where they met, hoping to find her. He wouldn’t have cared, but she was “the one”.

kat ~ 25 October 2016
(140 Characters)

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October 21, 2016

But Tradition…a Three Line Tale

By Kat Myrman
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Photo by William Bout

“It was tradition after all,” the teens told themselves, “kids have always climbed to the top of the old lighthouse to celebrate the end of school, to set their dreams for the future, written on small squares of paper, free to sail on the wind!

No matter that a fierce storm was fast approaching the inlet, so severe that even those who lived on higher, dry ground had already left the island seeking the safety of the mainland, tradition was tradition and Dream Night always happened on the first Monday after graduation, no exceptions.

So they ventured to the lighthouse, fearing that changing to another night might ruin the chances for their dreams to come true but the wind whipped the waves into furious swells swallowing them all with their dreams still intact, clenched in their cold wet hands, as a dozen young people learned too late that sometimes tradition is meant to be broken.

kat ~ 21 October 2016

A Three Line Tale for Sonya’s weekly challenge Three Line Tale for Sonya’s weekly challenge based on the photo above by William Bout. Veering from tradition seems to be a theme for me when it comes to these three line story challenges. But hey, nothing wrong with that right?! I definitely makes life interesting.:)

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