Author's Note: I wrote this for a vocabulary-based challenge a co-worker proposed and thought I might post it here. Enjoy! One particularly disagreeable night in late December, Dr. Rothchild received a telegram from a fellow erudite and former student, Edmond Talbot, which piqued his interest. Have been delivered package of suspicious origin. Stop. Pray come [...]
Category: short story
Flash Fiction: Everything and The Kitchen Sink
AN: This is an absurdist flash fiction piece I wrote based on the Reedsy short-story prompt "he glared at the kitchen sink in fury." Enjoy! Leo glared at the kitchen sink in fury, holding the remnants of his spaghetti dinner in his hands. “Hope this pleases Your Highness,” he murmured bitterly. With a fork he [...]
Strange Writing Prompts For Your Boring Monday
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I'm finding myself consistently disappointed by writing prompts I find on the internet. I understand that the main point of these niblets are to get our minds jogging and not to help us produce a 1,000 page Pulitzer Prize winning work of art. Nevertheless, I can't help but feel [...]
My First Car is Dead: My Car Accident
I've had a difficult time writing recently because I have had two crappy events occur in a single week. The first I won't discuss here, but I hope that my writing about the second event will help me get my mojo flowing again. I was driving home from school after dropping off some camera equipment [...]