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Joe loaded up OpenOffice and got ready to write. Flash fiction characters gathered in the front of his mind and watched the text cursor blink on the empty page.
“He's gonna write about me again today, I just know it,” said Gale Gullwing, equipping and unequipping his daggers anxiously.
“Don't kid yourself,” said Business, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. “You were good for one story, if that. Face it, you're surplus to requirements.”
“Fuck off, foureyes. My joke has way more mileage than yours.” Gale glitched a bit to make his point.
“Shut up, both of you,” said Koschei, a furry gun-wielding alien totally legally distinct from Rocket Raccoon. “It's gonna be Dirk. It's always Dirk. Even when it seems like it's something new, Dirk Ex Machina always shows up at the end to explode something.”
“Where is Dirk?” asked Tern.
“He's too cool for this. He's probably hanging out with Wren and Nate and everyone in 'actual novel' land.”
“I don't see why Joe likes them so much, it's not like they're published.”
“I'd give anything to have an unpublished novel written about me,” you said. “Nobody likes second person. I put people off.”
Suddenly, your head is violently parted from your shoulders by a razor-sharp lollipop. Raknar the ruthless had journeyed the entire length of Imaginationland to get here. He had no idea where the fuck he was, so he decided to kill everything that moved. It seemed like the sensible course of action.
“He's gonna write about me again today, I just know it,” said Gale Gullwing, equipping and unequipping his daggers anxiously.
“Don't kid yourself,” said Business, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. “You were good for one story, if that. Face it, you're surplus to requirements.”
“Fuck off, foureyes. My joke has way more mileage than yours.” Gale glitched a bit to make his point.
“Shut up, both of you,” said Koschei, a furry gun-wielding alien totally legally distinct from Rocket Raccoon. “It's gonna be Dirk. It's always Dirk. Even when it seems like it's something new, Dirk Ex Machina always shows up at the end to explode something.”
“Where is Dirk?” asked Tern.
“He's too cool for this. He's probably hanging out with Wren and Nate and everyone in 'actual novel' land.”
“I don't see why Joe likes them so much, it's not like they're published.”
“I'd give anything to have an unpublished novel written about me,” you said. “Nobody likes second person. I put people off.”
Suddenly, your head is violently parted from your shoulders by a razor-sharp lollipop. Raknar the ruthless had journeyed the entire length of Imaginationland to get here. He had no idea where the fuck he was, so he decided to kill everything that moved. It seemed like the sensible course of action.
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I bought a Santa Claus balloon and spoke with you Christmas morning, your marker fresh, stunted grass all around it I'd talked to you before— you dipped and buzzed in the plastic of the kitchen light, tucked up in the ceiling I was bits of broken china, a howl stuttered through the tautness of my lips You touched my hand and whispered it's not anything you did or said; I had a year of failing breath, at most, left in my fading body The goodbye I gave you then, my love, worked so well I wasn’t ready You slipped away in the silence of that night like the glint of wrapping paper, the kisses from our lips
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FFM day 24!
Today's challenge was decribed thus:
All of today's challenge elements were suggested/inspired by OTHER FLASH FICTION MONTH PARTICIPANTS! Go flashers! (Translation: you have people to blame today.)
Element ONE: DEPTH OF FIELD:- "Photographers and filmmakers use a technique called "depth of field." Write a scene in which you move back and forth between two "fields of action." Have two things going on at once-- one involving your characters in the fore ground and a second having to do with the background." Suggested byTwin-Earth
Element TWO: ALL IN A NAME:-"The name of your favorite song is now the name of your story. Write the story without quoting the song." Suggested by FieryDownpour479
Element THREE: MR GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL:- "One of the challenges should totally include breaking the fourth wall. That would be fun to write." Suggested by Lexi-Cat
Element FOUR: BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT:- Maximum length: 256 words (that's 4^4)."i'd also like to push for a word count based challenge because i love those haha. economy of words is a difficult thing to master but it's so much fun trying." Suggested by TheFellDragon
I'd have written way more, and included characters like Yves and Lon the lowercase t support worker, but wordcount happened.
The titular song is by Kathryn Williams, and I can't recommend the album that it's on enough.
Today's challenge was decribed thus:
All of today's challenge elements were suggested/inspired by OTHER FLASH FICTION MONTH PARTICIPANTS! Go flashers! (Translation: you have people to blame today.)
Element ONE: DEPTH OF FIELD:- "Photographers and filmmakers use a technique called "depth of field." Write a scene in which you move back and forth between two "fields of action." Have two things going on at once-- one involving your characters in the fore ground and a second having to do with the background." Suggested byTwin-Earth
Element TWO: ALL IN A NAME:-"The name of your favorite song is now the name of your story. Write the story without quoting the song." Suggested by FieryDownpour479
Element THREE: MR GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL:- "One of the challenges should totally include breaking the fourth wall. That would be fun to write." Suggested by Lexi-Cat
Element FOUR: BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT:- Maximum length: 256 words (that's 4^4)."i'd also like to push for a word count based challenge because i love those haha. economy of words is a difficult thing to master but it's so much fun trying." Suggested by TheFellDragon
I'd have written way more, and included characters like Yves and Lon the lowercase t support worker, but wordcount happened.
The titular song is by Kathryn Williams, and I can't recommend the album that it's on enough.
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... I think you outdid yourself with this one! I read the description last, so had no idea what the prompts were. I'd think with so many restrictions (especially wordcount, ugh!) it would be choppy and/or hard to follow, but noooooo.... (OK, technically Ragnar chopped.)