Don’t go fainting… August 31

Filed under FFF Story, Flash Fiction Fridays by larisse | 1 comment

Don’t go fainting now, but I’ve written a story. Okay, so it’s only 250 words long. It’s a piece of flash (or perhaps in my case flush) fiction. I wrote it to participate in Flash Fiction Friday. (How I do love alliteration.) It is being sponsored by Laurie from Hatrack. Basically, you are given a photo to write a story about under 250 words. It sounds crazy, but no crazier than NaNoWriMo. So, I figured I would try it and see where it takes me.

Flash Fiction Friday prompt #1 (250 word limit):

Flash Fiction Friday prompt #1: Slanted House

Without further ado, here is my entry:

“Throught the Glass Darkly”

Alice shook the snow globe furiously, but it was no use. The flakes refused to fall. Tears filled her eyes. She watched as the once happy scene grew more desperate. Where once had been a beautiful mansion with a flower garden, there was now a slanted house with a strange amphitheater out front. Where she had seen tiny people living their lives, there were now shadowy wraiths flitting through the downtrodden windows.

“It looks like a mausoleum,” Alice thought, shuddering.

What more could she do, but confess to her uncle about what she had done. He had warned her not to remove any of the objects from the backroom. Yet, from the moment she had seen the little globe, something had compelled her to steal it. Now, the little world lay dying.

Alice slowly approached her uncle’s office, carrying the globe under one arm. She knocked on his door. “Uncle Vincent, may I come in?”

Alice watched as the doorknob turned and the door creaked open. She pushed against it cautiously. She did not know what her punishment would be, but she intended to face it. She knew her uncle was not an unkind man, but he was strict. But when she stepped through the door, she did not find herself in his office. Instead, she found herself outside standing in a familiar scene. She turned around quickly to go back, but where once had been a door there was nothing.

Suddenly, snowflakes began to fall and the scene changed.

-End

(Posted 08/31/05 @ 10:33 PM)
Hope you enjoyed it. Don’t steal it. It’s not really worth anything anyways. Oh, and if you would be kind. This is the first story I’ve written in I don’t know how long.

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Flash Fiction Friday #1

  1. Gateway to the Otherworld - L M Ashton (Peregrinas)
  2. The Project - D T Kelly (The Secret Government Eggo Project)
  3. Remnants - Beka (Just a Small Town Girl)
  4. In Ruins - Chanpheng (Mekong River Tributaries)
  5. Star Crossed Lovers - Cath Smith (Curiouser and Curiouser)
  6. Planet Fanlan: Cursed Daggers - Melanie A. (Cave Dweller)
  7. The Gatekeeper - Carol (CaySedai's creative side)
  8. Crooked - Anne (Life in the Ketchup Bottle)
  9. The Property - Tom Davidson (Guest hosted at Peregrinas)
  10. Through The Glass Darkly - larisse (Echoes In The Mind)
  11. Washing in Water is Washing in Blood - Steve Rogers (Rabid Newz: Eat My Shorts)
  12. Untitled - BlackBlade (BlackBladeFiction)
  13. The Abbey - Cass (Avalon Landing)

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