Middle | Prompt #218

Middle | Prompt #218

Middle. She was always the middle. Never first. Never last. Just stuck. Right there. In the middle. In the shadow of Jamie’s greatness. In the wake of Allison’s brilliance. Plain old Sherry. Their music teacher, Mrs. Grey scowled fiercely over the top of her tiny...
Instantly | Prompt #16

Instantly | Prompt #16

PROMPT : INSTANTLY Lee ducked behind the fence and made his way over to the little ramshackle hut at the end of the alley. “Cora?” His girlfriend stuck her head out, looking supremely annoyed. “I told you it’d be an hour, Lee. What are you doing here?” “I can’t wait...

Peeling (Flash Fiction)

PROMPT : PEELING  Timed : five minutes. A/N: Uh…yeah. This one’s kind of weird–at least, weird for me. Sorry? 😛   He peeled his feet off the floor and began to poke at the rubbery toes with one metal-tipped finger. “It’s not too...
Screenplay (Flash Fiction)

Screenplay (Flash Fiction)

“Screenplay?” He frowned. “That’s not the most lucrative career, dearest. Why don’t you try something a little more–liberating?” “Like what, skydiving?” “Er, no. There’s death in that.”...
Screenplay (Flash Fiction)

Candid (Flash Fiction)

“But that’s not what I want to do with my life!” “What we do with our lives is not what we always want to, but what we need to,” Mom frowned at me. “You have to look at the bigger picture, Catherine. It’s never what it seems to be.” “How is this the bigger picture?” I...