I did this a few weeks ago in response to a ROW80 blog prompt.
The challenge - Today let’s play with some poetry. Free verse, sonnets, haikus… the form doesn’t matter, but you will need to add in a sense of stillness (without using the words “stillness” or “still”), and a playful puppy.
My haiku:
My hyper puppy.
Collapsed in sleep in my lap.
Not even a twitch.
My writing group, ROW80, posted a challenge a while ago to do a 100 word story. These are fun to write, as little fragments of description or dialogue. Maybe something you'd open a novel with, or slip in between two chapters, or just leave as is.
The challenge -
This time, I’d like to draw your attention to the lovely photo that Elizabeth Mitchell posted to her blog for the First Friday Photo bloghop I’d mentioned last week here: Lapidary Prose and write a drabble (a little 100 word story) with the picture and the cycle of endings and beginnings as integral parts of the piece.
The photo seemed very peaceful to me, a nice place to rest.
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This is written for the final prompt from Flash Fiction Friday - due December 29th so I'm just a tad late. I started and abandoned several ideas, and this one is more of an outline for a novel, but what the heck. Here's the challenge -
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Let’s have some fun with our final prompt. All over our world, the holidays are celebrated in many different ways. But, what about the folks on other worlds? What holidays occur at the end of their years, and how are they celebrated? You tell us. Your ‘other world’ can be another planet or another dimension of our very own Earth realm. It’s all up to you.
Prompt: Write a story about an end-of-year holiday celebration in another world.
Genre: Science Fiction
Word Count: 1,500 or less
Deadline: December 29, 2016
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Here's my story, at just over 800 words.