This is a unique flash fiction challenge where Barbara W. Beachman
provides you with a new photo each week, and the first sentence of a story.
Your challenge is to finish the story using 100-150 words, not including the
sentence provided. Don’t forget to use the opening sentence… This challenge
runs from Monday to Sunday! Get creative and have fun finishing the story!
Please include the photo with your bit of flash and a link back to this
post. Do not forget to click on the blue frog and add your link so that others
can enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!
POTIONS & SPELLS
“He thought he found the perfect hiding spot.”
Rufus watched from safety as Hazel went on a real
tear. Potions went flying; even the flames under the caldron pulled themselves
into a tight ball to avoid her wrath. But nothing she did could bring her
favorite snack back into being.
Hazel could not be consoled. She even tried to
create her own version, but her yellow cakes all tasted like dirt and the cream
became so hard it broke the only tooth she had left.
Ranting and raving for days with no respite,
Rufus waited for her to retire, and tried his own spell. After adding tail of
newt, frog's eyes, and a little three spice to his concoction, Rufus knew he
had the perfect potion to make Hazel the Twinkie baker she so desired to be.
Rufus was wrong; his potion turned Hazel into her
favorite snack.
Rufus wasn't sad, Twinkies, he'd been told would last forever.
150 words
Yolanda Renee © 2015
Wikipedia
FYI:
"A Twinkie
is an American snack
cake, marketed as a
"Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling." It was formerly made and
distributed by Hostess Brands and is again being sold under the Hostess
Brands name. The brand is currently owned by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos and Company. During bankruptcy proceedings, Twinkie production in the United States
ended on November 21, 2012, and resumed after an absence on American store
shelves, becoming available again nationwide on July 15, 2013." Wikipedia
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