FLASHY TITLE

Today your prompt comes in the form of the title of your work of fiction. Below, you are provided with SIX titles. Choose one of them and write that story. Let your muse loose and see where she leads you.

FRACTURED JEWEL

BLUE SHOOTING STAR

TROPICAL WILD FLOWER

RADIANT GLOW

BURNT PHOTOGRAPHS

MERMAID ANGEL

TEN WORD INCLUSION

Sometimes our fiction is just words. Where they take us dictates our mood, or triggers a thought that we can expound upon. Fit these ten words into the fiction of your flashy mind. You dictate where we will follow!

images storm drain inhaling wings 

prayers mysterious pink silver grape 

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: PART 1

I can smell the turkey dinner already. 

We are heading down the pike to another great gathering of family and friends. 

But it isn't always that easy.

You are away from home and have a week to make it in time

 for Thanksgiving Day. Write an adventure that will become family lore 

as to the lengths you would go for family 

(and a steaming turkey drumstick!)

NAWRIMOLILSTO

NaNoWriMo is upon us, and everyone scurries to novelize, poeticize and fictionalize.

So here's your charge for the day.

I declare today as National Write More Little Stories (NaWriMoLilSto) day.

Take a spark of an idea and give it a little life. When the time is right, 

use that ember to expand into your next novel undertaking!

3 WORD SALAD - GETTING NAUTICAL

Incorporate these three words into your work of fiction:

SUBMERGE

STARBOARD

BOUYANCY

THE RIGHT THING...

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." ~Lao-Tze

They say character is doing the right thing when no one is watching.

Write an episode where someone does the right thing for all the right reasons! Write a great character with great character.

FLASH FORWARD FICTION

There have been many movie romances depicted on the Silver Screen.

Boy meets girl, Boy loses Girl,...

Happy endings sound like the perfect conclusion,

but we want you to take the Danny/Sandy (Grease),
 Scarlett/Rhett (Gone With the Wind), Edward/Bella (Twilight),

Rick/Ilsa (Casablanca), or any other romantic movie pairings and project them into their future selves. 

How did they REALLY end up? Happy Ever After or Crappy Never More?

AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW...

Photo by W.J. Wojtanik

What awaits at the end of your personal rainbow? 

A leprechaun with a pot of gold?

A fortunate event?

A magic land of short green things?

What would you like to find?

End your search in a bit of fiction about it!

BENEATH THE SURFACE

The harder you dig, the more you uncover.
And sometimes, you bury your head in sand and miss details.

Take the title of a story or article in a magazine/newspaper and 
write a fictional story with that as your inspiration. 
Don't retell the story, give it a fresh new life!
We want as many details as you see fit written into your story.
What will you uncover? Dig deep and let your muse run free!

AND SOMETIMES FICTION IS STRANGER THAN TRUTH

Today, take an event in history (world history or your personal history) and write it as a piece of flash fiction. Change the names, places and whatever you need to to "protect the innocent" and give your story a surreal feel. And as always, remember: Everyone has a little story...

MONOCHROMATIC IS MORE DRAMATIC

When Dorothy landed in OZ, the colors enhanced her journey.

But, sometimes seeing things in black and white is more stark; more real.

Break your colored pencils and break away from how you envision things.

Get a feeling as if you are a Film Noir detective searching for a wealthy heiress that her husband wants left unfound.

Two twists: the husband is your twin brother, and you are color-blind.

Write me a flashy bit of mystery!

SCHOOL'S OUT

The end has come.

No more pencils, no more books.

Have the students been dismissed, or have

they been banished to a life of ignorance?

Your story is one of desertion and desolation.

Write it!

THE LESSONS LEARNED...

ROLL PLAYING...

LASSERBY'S LEGACY

Nigel Lasserby knew his time was growing short.

In a gathhering of his closest friends and family members he informed them of his imminent demise and offered each of them a parcel; a memento by which to remember Nigel.

Inside his Great-Niece's package was half of a medallion and clues as to where the remainder of it was hidden. Brother Christoph had been given a book of quotations with many of the sayings highlighted with underlinings. Kenneth was Nigel's man-servant. His "prize" was a key to a safe deposit box that Nigel had kept at the bank. Lastly, Kitten, a buxom stripper who had befriended Nigel in his final days, received a note book with a series of random numbers.

Before he could explain each gift, Nigel was stricken by a fatal heart attack and died.

Write from the perspective of one of the recipients about your "inheritance" and see where it takes you.

IN THE ADVANCE OF YEARS

WAITING FOR ED POE

"He's late again!" Larry thought. "That morbid bastard is probably sequestered away in his chamber!"

"Indeed!" Jim agreed. "The guy will still be walking the earth and people will refer to him as 'the late Ed Poe'!"

Ed had suffered some losses and been dealing with his own mind, which scared his two friends.

Lawrence turned. "Did you hear that?" he asked.

"That tapping; gently rapping on your door?" James inquired.

A loud squaking could be heard in the hall and suddenly, a large black feather slid under the door...

LOOK MA...

THAT'LL TEACH YOU!

Cynthia threw the last mug that the cupboard held. She had much to be angry about.

"YOU SON-OF-A-BANANA BOAT CAPTAIN!" she screeched on the top of her voice. "How the hell could you?"

Her rant continued for what seemed like five minutes, when in actuality it was more like ten.

J.P. had no response to her tirade; he didn't move a muscle. He was totally unconscious.

"If you think that you're just going to lay there bleeding, you have another guess coming!" Cynthia wound down. "GET UP!"

J.P. started to stir...

HAPPINESS IS....