Flash Fiction Friday 130: 6-word stories

Welcome to Flash Fiction Friday and the one hundred and thirtieth piece in this series. This week’s is the ninth bunch of 6-word stories by a variety of authors, together with their 6-word biographies! These stories will be podcasted in episode 40 (with three <500-word stories) on Sunday 17th May.

6-word stories

by William Bortz – writer, barista, dreamer

• My dreams match those of birds
• These hands cannot open unfamiliar doors
• On blackjack tables vows are sold

by Salvatore Buttaci lives life in flashes

• Give the old devil his due-due.
• My apple rotted. Call Dr. Smith!
• The short of it? I’m sleepy.

by Tony Tibbenham – Writing because I must

• Fizzy drink. Add icecream. Lush dessert.
• Take one. Another. Chocolate box empty.
• Love husband. Lust elsewhere. Pay lawyers.

by Mark K, a writer?… trying hard

• Cereal killer murders his own breakfast.
• Time goes faster now I’m old.
• She could model… for road kill!

by Steph Post, tattooed teacher, also writer

• Turned around. Made eye contact. Nevermind.

by Maria my dog is my muse

• Worried eyes.  I care.  Let’s talk.
• Clock ticks.  Time passes.  Why me?
• Just pet me.  I love you.

by Roger Hurn South London’s Raymond Chandler

• It’s behind you! Run! Too late!
• Tick tock, tick tock, tick BANG!
• Time, the deadly slow motion assassin.

by Joan H. Young – terminal wanderlust victim

• Gone fishing- never returned. Not missed.
• Green shoots gasping through late snow.
• “Drink this,” she said. Coroner’s inquest.

by KS Tan – Imagination, the ultimate frontier

• Lost. And yet… this is home.
• Daddy, can you hear me cry?

and then three from yours truly… Morgen Bailey, Morgen With an E

• Unwanted goldfish. Eaten. Carrot stick.
• Confession forgiveness, practical joke gone wrong.
• Lonely in a crowd. Misses her.

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Thank you, everyone.

If you’d like to submit your 6-worders (two per blog post, although you can send as many as you like) or 500-word max. stories for consideration for Flash Fiction Friday take a look here, or up to 1,000 words for critique on my Online Short Story Writing Group (links below).

Related articles:

• http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/14/how-to-write-flash-fiction
• http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/blog/flash-fiction-all-you-ever-wanted-know-were-afraid-ask
• http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/flashfiction.html
• http://www.awkwordpapercut.com/writing-flash-fiction.html
• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/short-and-sweet-reading-and-writing-flash-fiction
• http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Flash-Fiction
• http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/flash.shtml
• http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/flash-fiction-whats-it-all-about
• http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog
• and guest blogs about short stories on this blog: Alberta Ross, Jane Hertenstein, Helen M Hunt, Morgen Bailey, Sarah Grace Logan, Warren Bull.

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