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Flash Fiction Friday: Not a Normal Evening

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My son-in-law posted this in raw form on his facebook page. He was kind enough to let me borrow it. I’ve cleaned it up a bit, tightened the wording, and made it exactly 100 words long, yep, a drabble.  Enjoy.

Not A Normal Evening

I was talking with my neighbor, Dan, about the price of bottled cat urine in Croatia, when a Wookie burst through the wall of my apartment and demanded all of my post-it notes. Not the small ones either, the regular size ones. Dan began to hyperventilate. He’s never been one to deal well with unexpected alien arrivals. I gave the Wookie the two pads in my possession. He wasn’t very happy, of course, but he left without doing much more damage. I poured Dan a shot of whisky and started calling emergency handymen. That wall wasn’t going to fix itself.

The End

100 Words

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Flash Fiction Friday: By the Water

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100 Word Challenge: …a picture of two little girls peaking over a rail fence at the river on the other side…? I’m going to call it By the Water. I first saw this challenge over at Peter Denton’s site. Head there immediately (after reading my post, obviously.) Originally, the prompts are over at Julia’s Place.

Note: a story of exactly one hundred words is called a drabble. They can be fun.

By the Water

“When’s it comin’,” she whispered.

“Soon,” Amanda said. At eight, she was more worldly than her little sister.

“Will there be princesses?” Chelsea asked, standing on tiptoe.

“And fairies,” Amanda pulled herself higher, both hands on the top rail trying to see around the bend of the river.

“Does the parade come every day?”

“No,” Amanda shook her head. “Just mid-summer’s day.” She stopped stretching and turned to her sister. “And only if it’s sunny, like today.”

Chelsea’s eyes went wide. “What if it rains?”

Face gone serious, “they don’t have the parade.”

“Oh,” she grabbed the top rail, waiting.