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Happy Flash Fiction Monday, everybody!
What? FFM isn’t listed on your calendar? Would you mind penciling it in? I’ll wait.
Great, thank you. Onward.
Flash Fiction Monday is a friendly contest celebrating short short fiction based on a theme. However, where conventional wisdom tells us flash fiction is usually constructed out of 300 to 1,000 words, here on bryanhilson.com we’ll tell our stories in three sentences.
The theme for this month’s FFM is “Happy Returns.” If you’d like to participate leave me a three sentence story based on your interpretation of that theme in the comment box, and I’ll pick a winner from all the entries. Said winner receives a glowing three sentence blog post from yours truly. Better than a kick in the pants, wouldn’t you say?
Here’s an example of what I’m getting at:
The father returned home a year after going out to buy some liquid plumber for the kitchen drain. He started in about a bright light, a ditch, amnesia, but his story was beat out by all the hugs and kisses and laughter. That night while his family slept soundly, the father was in the bathroom having been awakened by a terrible itch along his hairline, and scratching it he peeled off the latex mask disguising a different face.
Or something like that.
I look forward to reading your stories. Have fun and thanks for playing.
He had seen the letter addressed to him was odd, even before he opened it. Now, there was no doubt that its page was more fabric than paper; coarse, scented and gilded with a single line of glowing script that read, “Dear Dad, I am happy to report I arrived safely and will not tell Mom about the organ transplant.” It caused him to shudder, for he had no children, was not married, and yet here was clearly an abdominal scar where there was none before.