This week's flash fiction challenge was a bit different. I asked authors to create a "Half Dribble."
"A half what?" you say.
Dribble. A dribble is an ultra-short fiction composed of exactly 50 words. This challenge is for a half-dribble, thus exactly 25 words.
Switching things up even further, we did a text prompt instead of an image:
The Last Chocolate in the Box.
Rules:
- Exactly 25 words. Not 24. Not 26.
- Include a title.
As you read through them, I encourage you to follow the authors on Facebook. If a piece worked for you, chances are their other work will too.
A big thanks to all who participated:
- John Cox
- Kathy Goddard writer
- Author Jennifer Jaxxon-Louis
- JDonovanStrong
- Eolas Pellor
- Jesse R Traynham - Author
- Mark Traynham
- Mary Zuelke Author
Likes: 6
Words: 25
It’s still chocolate. 'Tis cherry inside. Or am I wrong? Could be fudge or caramel, or… But if so, why would it be the last?
by Author Jennifer Jaxxon-Louis
Likes: 5
Words: 24
Strawberry nougat. No fun. Creamy white stuff. No rum. Would rather eat my thumb. I take the last and finally! My caramel crunch one.
Likes: 5
Words: 25
First we were legion, but as the fire kindled, our number dwindled, and now . . . now it’s just me. Light trickles in. I fear the worst.
Likes: 4
Words: 25
There’s one chocolate left. One. He’s gone and scoffed the rest. His fingers twitch. If he takes the last one…my suitcase is already packed.
by John Cox
Likes: 4
Words: 25
Daddy's final gift lay empty 35 years later, my mother's empty body lay beside it. She ate one chocolate every year. I guess life is…
Likes: 3
Words: 25
“You take it!” “No, gross. You take it!” There is no one so lonely as the cordial cherry. In a world full of truffle ganache.
by Eolas Pellor
Likes: 2
Words: 25
My landlady absolutely insisted I have the last chocolate in the box. I didn’t mention the rest all had a faint taste of bitter almonds.
Likes: 2
Words: 50 (Dribble)
Chocolate...alas, I have none. no snickers, mounds, nor mars...does mars have chocolate? perhaps Elon will find out. OUT !?!? I’m out of chocolate...SIGH one from your Mom Oh boy, my uncle sent me a box of chocolates no dividers inside about 24 pieces another box of chocolates, has dividers...so...12 pieces
When Colton Travers was just four months old, a runaway horse on Bent Oak Road cause a car wreck that left his mother dead. His father survived, then vanished. Raised on family stories and faded photographs, he never questioned the past . . . until a worn shoe box of old clippings surfaced with hints of a darker truth. Now, drawn into a fifty-year-old unsolved case, Colton must chase a trail gone cold, where memory holds the clues, time keeps the truth, and justice demands satisfaction.
Stargazing at the June Bug Ranch
Comments
Be the first to comment.