I don’t doubt that he will set the forest on fire, so I send him to gather firewood while I fan the flames.
When he returns, he suggests I take all my clothes off.
“Hot innit?”
I’m not amused, but he has a way of loosening me up, especially when he changes into his gray sweatpants.
© Nortina Simmons
His flight landed just over an hour ago.
He rushes in without closing the door, drops his suitcase, and hugs the tank.
“My loves!”
He doesn’t seem to notice the fish are all different.
Or that his orange Persian prowling by his feet hasn’t touched the food in its bowl.
Or that I just crumpled a receipt from the pet store behind my back.
Written for #1MinFiction, hosted by Cyranny’s Cove. The challenge is to manage to type a story in a minute or less based on the given prompt. Today’s prompt is:
“It’s that time of year again!”
“What, to be lonley and broke?”
“No, thankful.”
“I’ll be thankful when the city comes to blow these.” She kicks the leaves covering the sidewalk. “Hard to jog when you’re worried about faceplanting.”
I grunt.
“I wonder what a blower feels like…”
“God.” If it means peace from her constant complaints of sexual frustration, I welcome the faceplant.
Submitted for #1MinFiction. Thank you so much to Cyranny’s Cove for continuing this challenge during my very long and unplanned hiatus. It was a pleasant surprise to see it still going strong. 🙂
If you’d like to participate, you can find this week’s prompt on Cyranny’s page here.
He asked me if I could go a month without sugar.
I hadn’t considered that he wasn’t referring to the pint of ice cream I’d eaten by myself when I told him yes.
The next morning, I reached up for a kiss, and he pushed me away. “Day one,” he said.
By Day 7, I was making love to my body-sized pillow.
On Day 15, he told me prayer could help. “It’ll teach you how to survive on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
“But I thought the test was to survive without sex.”
He still questions if I’m really religious.
I made it all the way to Day 29 without touching him, though I touched myself a few times–Lord, forgive me.
On the eve of Day 30, I parked my car in his driveway with the Bible in my lap, waited until the clock struck midnight, then knocked on his door and demanded, “Give me some sugar.”
Challenge: Monday’s One-Minute Fiction (#1MinFiction)
Objective: Think up or write a complete story in one minute or less
Prompt: sugar
Rise and shine! May I borrow a minute of your morning for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
It’s June, it’s hot! People are already thinking about summer plans, summer bods not yet achieved. How do you plan to spend these sunny days? Baking under the sun? Lounging at the beach or by the pool? Cooking out because it’s too damn hot to be turning the oven on inside? Taking a day trip to the countryside? If you’re not sure yet, maybe this week’s #1MinFiction prompt will help you make a decision…
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
Rise and shine! May I borrow a minute of your morning for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
Happy Memorial Day, the unofficial first day of summer! Like most Americans, you’re probably standing over a hot grill, flipping some hamburgers and hot dogs, sipping an ice cold beer. Of course, if you’re on the east coast, your cookout probably got washed out by subtropical storm Alberto. But for those of you who aren’t gonna let a little rain ruin your day, this photo prompt is for you!
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
Hello! Is it still Monday? May I borrow a minute of your time for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
Ever feel like the weekend totally escaped you? Yesterday morning, I woke up with a start. Thinking it was Monday, I rushed to get ready for work, only to pause in front of the bathroom mirror and say to myself, “Hmmm, this weekend was really short.” That’s because it was Sunday! Unfortunately, I don’t remember a thing that happened after. There went my weekend…
Well, at least we have Monday off next week. Maybe that’ll mean I can post your #1MinFiction prompt on time for once! For now, here is the prompt for this week…
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
Rise and shine! May I borrow a minute of your morning for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
After an extremely long winter (thanks a lot, Mr. Groundhog) we seem to have skipped spring altogether and nosedived right into summer. Yesterday it was 90 degrees (Fahrenheit) in my city, and it’s only forecast to get hotter today. I hate to see how temperatures in July and August will look!
Of course, today’s prompt could be referring to the weather or someone’s boiling temper…
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
Rise and shine! May I borrow a minute of your morning for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
Getting acquainted with a new job, new digs, and a new city has made it extremely difficult to keep up with a regular blogging schedule, so please forgive me for missing #1MinFiction last week! If we had a prompt, it would have been something zombie related (since last Monday was the final day for the April A to Z Challenge). You could say today’s photo prompt is zombie-esque. I mean, the ripped shirt, the flash of nipple, the dying flowers…
Or maybe it’s just a stretch. You decide!
And if you want to read my “zombie apocalypse” inspired A to Z serial story, read it here, starting with A is for Accessory to Murder!
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
Rise and shine! May I borrow a minute of your morning for a quick flash fiction challenge? How quickly does an idea spark and develop into a story when you only have a picture, a word, or a phrase…and one minute to write?
Monday’s One-Minute Fiction challenges you to write a complete micro-fiction piece in, you guessed it, one minute, no more, no less, based on the prompt provided! Of course, you can come back to edit for grammar & spelling, but the story itself must be written in a minute.
The A to Z Challenge is here! Twenty-six posts from A to Z all April long! Are you participating?
Keeping with my own A to Z theme of revisiting old blog post tags to inspire new stories, here’s a prompt that can be innocent or terrifying or both at the same time…
Now it’s time for the rules. I don’t have many, because we all know rules are no fun, but here are the basic logistics for each challenge:
Let’s get writing, shall we? And…
Ready . . .
Set . . .
Write!
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