FFfAW –
Week of 09-08-2015
Welcome!
30th
Challenge for
Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
8 September – 15 September 2015
The prompt photo will be
provided each Tuesday to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo
prompt with your story. the link remains open for one week, Tuesday - Tuesday. Please credit photo to
photographer.
The story word limit is 100
– 150 words (+ – 25 words). Each story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Therefore, no serial (continuation) stories. They become too complicated for our readers.
Pingback to the challenge
post in your story’s post.
Remember, half the fun is
reading and commenting on each other’s stories.
Here is the photo prompt:
photo credit: @pricelessjoy.co 2014
ONE DAY
Unbidden tear drops fall from
her slate grey eyes
As she hears the unspoken lies
Tumbling from his lips so
easily
Hands and arms gesticulating
freely
Slipping out like liquid syrup
full of treacle
Viscous, sticky sentences full
of shrapnel
Tracer bullets leaving cobweb
scars
They light up in her mind like
stars
She turns her back and prepares
the tea
Acting normally in front of her
young three
They will not know the
sacrifices she makes
They won’t see or feel her
heartache
One day when they are grown and
strong
She will leave him and all that
was wrong.
One day when he is gone
One day she will be alone
One day she will begin to heal
One day she will begin to feel
Love and affection
Not abuse and rejection.
Word count: 134
Wonderful poem Sally! So very sad that she feels she has to stay with him while the children are young. Many women, I'm sure, feel that way. I will be glad when she can get away from him. Great story! Thank you so much for participating in the Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Challenge!
ReplyDeleteVery moving and sad. But nicely written.
ReplyDeleteWow. That is powerful. It puts a whole new slant on the prompt.
ReplyDeleteThe tone of this poem really comes through in the alliteration of lines 5 and 6.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written, sad and true for some. Well done, Sally. I truly like this one!
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