Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

Fiction Friday — “Sorry”

[Fiction] Friday Challenge #144 for 26th February, 2010 The bag was empty except for a smudged, slip of paper which said, “Sorry.” The bag was empty except for a smudged, slip of paper, which said, “Sorry.” Jeannie hadn’t touched the precious artifact yet but she could clearly see the letters, crudely written with what she hoped might ...

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Fiction Friday>> Life’s joke

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for September 25th, 2009: The house lights dim, the curtain goes up… you’re on. Life’s a stage, someone said. Shakespeare, maybe, or some other writer who got immortalized. That’s what I do: I play at life. Life’s a joke. It grabs you when you rush out of your mother’s womb and lets you go ...

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Fiction Friday>> Nine Lives

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for June 5th, 2009: “Don’t sit there,” she commanded. “That’s the cat’s chair.” “Let’s talk about this,” I said. “We’ll sit down, reason it out.” I backed slowly toward the living room, my eyes glued to hers, my hands away from my body to show I didn’t mean any harm. I could see her ...

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Fiction Friday>>Time out

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for May 29th, 2009: Choose one of the following (or both!) Put this into your story – “Time out! Time out! We can call that, right?” OR: write a poem from this image – A fallen star. “Time out! Time out! We can call that, right?” “For Christ’s sake, Shirley, get serious.” “I am being serious. We’ve always ...

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Fiction Friday >> Time Warp

[Fiction] Friday Challenge for May 8, 2009 A man is given the ability to go back in time and change one event in his life. It was true. He was here, five years into the past. He could relive this day, change everything. Amazingly, he had been given a second chance at making things better, at undoing ...

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