Category Archives: Twitter Tales

October 25, 2016

Twittering Tales #2 – 25 October 2016

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

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:

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 18, 2016

Twittering Tales #1 ~ 17 October 2016

By Kat Myrman

I love flash fiction, six word stories, three line tales and 100 word stories. These minimalist formats have helped me learn the art of telling stories without a lot of unneeded fluff. As they say, “Just the facts ma’am.” 😊

These days Twitter is all the rage, literally. We pop off loud (all caps), mean, obnoxious, inflammatory rants. Fortunately, the Twitter “powers that be” had the wisdom to limit us to 140 characters. Thank you Twitter goddesses!

As one who loves a good challenge, I thought, what if we tried to tell a story in only 140 characters, prompted by a photo or painting? Wouldn’t that be fun?

So, here is my 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.

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

To get this challenge started here is today’s prompt:

And here’s my twitter tale:

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 ~ 17 October 2016
(139 Characters)

The rest of the story…a bit of background on today’s prompt:

I found this intriguing photo, taken by Marczoutendijk, at wikimedia commons. The bronze sculpture, by Peter Nagelkerkein, was unveiled in Nuenen Park in the Netherlands, despite the vehement protests of residents who considered it ugly. Interestingly, the painting that inspired the sculpture, called “The Potato Eaters” by Vincent Van Gogh, also met with resistance when it was unveiled. Seen as rough, dark and ugly, many believed it veered too far from the brighter impressionistic genre of the day. Van Gogh would later write to his sister, saying that he considered this piece, his first official painting, to be his best work.

Obviously, my story has nothing to do with peasants or potatoes. But that is the beauty of art. It’s that “eye of the beholder” thing. So, what do you see? 🤓

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