SPIDERLIGHTS

FRIDAY FICTIONEEERS!

 

Hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The following photo is the PHOTO PROMPT. Where does it take you? Tell your story in a hundred words or less.

It seems a small thing to ask, but when posting your story, even if you’re using more than one prompt, please post all prompts to give the reader a sense of connection.

 

SPIDERLIGHTS

The farming of the planet earth is proving quite simple. Morphing into light fixtures in elaborate, ostentatious buildings gave the troop's ample access and a varied population for consumption. Our greatest success came in buildings known as museums.

Of course, leaving the bodies outside nearby fast food restaurants kept the populace apathetic, as the nourishment this stock consume is far more harmful than we are.

 

Thank goodness, our need is only the DMT (Dimethyltryptamine, a psychedelic drug) found in the pineal gland.

This mystic drug is what keeps our species light-years ahead of mere humans.

95 words

Yolanda Renée © 2015

 

 

 

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KALEIDOSCOPE

This is a unique flash fiction challenge hosted by Barb Beacham. Barb provides a new photo each week, and the first sentence of a story.

Our 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! So 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!

This week, thanks go out to Eric Wickland of Momusnews who came up with the opening line to go with this week’s photo!

 

KALEIDOSCOPE

 

"At first it looked like an ordinary marble, but it was far from it."

 

Celine carefully glued each piece into place, and then bowed her head in prayer.

 

She recalled the flash in the sky. First on the scene, she found the glass ball glowing with a kaleidoscope of unique colors. She heard a voice in her head. "Do not break, hazardous to your planet's health."

 

"This is just too pretty to break, so you don't have to worry about that." She spoke aloud, and then laughed, shaking off the eerie warning. She hurried home with her prize.

 

For ten years, the glass ball sat stately as the centerpiece on her mantel, but a dusting accident changed everything.

 

Celine finished her prayer, crossed her fingers, and hurried to the window of her New York City condominium. Nothing had changed; hundreds of senseless bobble heads still filled the streets. Humanity had not returned to normal.

 

Celine screamed, and screamed, and screamed.

 

146 words

Yolanda Renée © 2015

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MONDAY'S FINISH THE STORY

 

 

 

 

 

ANOTHER STAR SHINES

Title: A Silent Soliloquy

Author: L.G. Keltner
Genre: Science Fiction/Dystopian
Length: 28,000 words
Cover Art: Devross
Release Date: July 6th, 2015

Blurb:

TIPPIE was created to be a weapon.  By all appearances, she's an ordinary girl of 18, and she uses that to her advantage in her work for The Facility.  What no one sees is that there's another girl buried deep inside.  She can't speak or control the movements of the body she inhabits.  As TIPPIE's silent passenger, she can only observe.  She uses the details she learns from TIPPIE's work to reconstruct the stories of other people's lives.  It helps her feel a little more connected to the world she can only watch.

When TIPPIE's work leads her to David, a young man with a haunted past and information that The Facility wants, TIPPIE uses her skills to earn his trust.  The silent girl beneath the surface knows that TIPPIE is only going to hurt him, but she can't help but feel for him.  Those feelings only grow, but she knows all too well that TIPPIE's work will soon come to an end.
 

L.G. Keltner spends most of her time trying to write while also cleaning up after her crazy but wonderful kids and hanging out with her husband.  Her favorite genre of all time is science fiction, and she’s been trying to write novels since the age of six.  Needless to say, those earliest attempts weren’t all that good. 

Her non-writing hobbies include astronomy and playing Trivial Pursuit.

You can typically find L.G. lurking around her blog, on Twitter, or on her Facebook page.

Pre-Order Links:

Amazon US
Amazon UK

Congratulations L. G.!

BRAISED HEART

Introduced to the The Friday Fictioneers. By Alistair Phillips I found myself drawn into another flash fiction group.

This one is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields . All based off a photo contributed by Raina Ng. It is under copyright.

In 100 words or less write about the picture provided. You can read this week’s stories by clicking on the blue Link.

 

Friday Fictioneers

 

This could become a bad habit, but flash fiction challenges are just too much fun! No excuses, I wrote what I saw, and this picture spoke to me of Braised Heart.

 

BRAISED HEART

         Donna stood back and admired the gleaming counters and sparkling floor. The aroma of baking bread and braised heart had replaced the smell of blood and bleach.

                "Dinner is served," she announced and pulled Clive's two-timing heart from the oven.

         Dusty purred and rubbed against her ankles.

         "How could anyone think that two timing Hannibal's daughter wouldn't come with a price?"

         Dusty meowed his response.

         She laughed. "Of course, maybe if Clive had known?"

         Dusty jumped onto the counter, his dark eyes full of light held her gaze.

                 "You're right; daddy always said it was our little secret."

~98 words~

Yolanda Renee © 2015

Thank you Alistair, this was great fun. Your contribution inspired me.

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 The Friday Fictioneers

Today I am visiting Denise Covey's Blog
for a Murderous Interview.

Please stop by!

 

 

 

 

SINS & WISHES

As usual I'm late, but I just came across this wonderful new flash fiction challenge on Sally's Scribbles, and I was inspired. I do hope you'll join the fun. Here is my entry, and yes, typical for me, murder came to mind. What can I say, my muse is pure evil!

This is a unique flash fiction challenge where we provide 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 link to add your link so that others can enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!

Monday's Finish the Story Link

 

SINS & WISHES

“Zeus was not having a good day and he made sure everyone knew it.”

Murder is a sin, but I do think about it. Then again, maybe I think about it too much, at least in regards to you. King of the castle, man of the house, ruler of his realm, you do strut your stuff.

 

They say our next life holds the reward for the sacrifices we make in this life. I married you, had my eyes wide open, but I can't justify the damage to our children if I left. So, you have no worries; you'll live a long and powerful life.

 

Still, the number of ways I kill you in my mind grows daily. My only hope is that karma plays a role and for each evil depiction  -  I lose one year of my future. Death will be my final blessing.

Yolanda Renée © 2015

 

 

Come on in - the pool of creativity is open for fun!


Today I am visiting Denise Covey's Blog
for a Murderous Interview.



 

BAFFLED

I apologize for the grainy photo, but trying to get pictures of active animals isn't easy. They have a habit of running away before the camera is even eye level. Some day I'll have them on webcam, so you can enjoy their antics too. There is one on the ground cleaning up the seeds the birds drop; the other is relaxing on the fence - formulating the next attack. He doesn't like eating off the ground.

 

As some of you know I'm feeding the birds and fighting the squirrels, who love sunflower seeds. You can't blame them, I love sunflower seeds. But they make little piggies of themselves. So far, and after several 'squirrel proof' feeders I have resorted to the 'squirrel baffle' to dissuade them from their ravenous consumption.

The 'baffle' is the large black umbrella like thing above the feeder; it's slippery, but these guys are big and smart. I'm hoping I've got the right distance between the baffle and the food. These guys will hook their tails around the hook at the top and stretch to reach the seeds. It's amazing, so we'll see...

 

Tomorrow I will know if I've finally beaten them - funny thing is, I'm betting on the squirrels!

 

 

I have a nest of cardinals in my pine tree, but he simply will not pose for a picture, I shall continue to try though, he's beautiful!

Oh, and I know another distraction from writing, do you blame me? The weather has been so beautiful!


I also have a new post on my blog Murderous Imaginings - I hope you check it out and become a follower. I've dedicated that blog to research and information on murder for the writer so inclined.

Choose Your Poison?

 

IWSG - SUNSHINE

IWSG

 

I don't have an insecurity this week, well, no new insecurity. The usual doubts, fears, and questions with no answers are always there, just easier to ignore when projects, usually not writing related need attention. After all, it is spring, and that garden isn't going to weed itself. I'm blaming, I mean giving credit to the sunshine.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

Wishing you nothing but sunshine!

 

Thank you to the co-hosts M. Pax, Tracy Jo, Patricia Lynne, Rachna Chhabria, Feather Stone, and Randi Lee!

but especially Alex J Cavanaugh the creator.