Each week, Sacha Black challenges writers to pen a piece in 52 words. Exactly 52. You know I love micro fiction and you know I love a challenge. So, here are my entries for the January prompts:
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Week: January 4
Prompt: The Timer Started
Blonde Bombshell
“I don’t know!” He struggled against the ropes binding his wrists. “I swear…”
“Tick, tock,” she examined her nails. “The timer started,” she glanced at the bomb, “six seconds ago.”
“You have the wrong man!”
“Aw. Now why’d you do that?” She grabbed his chin. “I. Don’t. Like. Liars.”
“Please…”
“Too late.”
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Week: January 18
Prompt: Lost Things
Searching
It hadn’t worked. But she didn’t regret a thing she’d done to try.
She accepted a folded pile of clothes from the guard and shuffled in line with the other women. She glanced back at the man. Fifteen years shifted around the walls in her mind.
She stopped.
His eyes went wide. “Mum?”
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Week: January 25
Prompt: One Hundred
Chilopodophobia
“I wonder if they actually have one hundred legs,” he dangled the centipede inches from her nose.
She shook her head and took a step back, bumping into the counter.
He took a step forward. “No? You don’t wonder? Or, no, you don’t want to know how I’m going to find out?”
There she goes again. The mistress of emotion distillation and perfection compressed. #mast 💙
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I love it! 😄 “The mistress of emotion distillation…” My new nickname. “perfection compressed” is kind of awesome, too. Thanks, my friend. #mast 💙
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You’re welcome!! Use them in good health, Lady. #mast 💙
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Love your micro fiction, Sarah!
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Thank you! 💖
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Especially loved your lost things.
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Thanks, Allie. 💖 I was thinking he was lost but, I suppose, she was, too.
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Okay, so wait, WHAT? How am I missing all these pingbacks. GRRRR. Okay I am linking to this immediately. Lost things was also my fave – I actually would love to read a whole short story there!
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You didn’t miss any pingbacks. I wrote two or three in your comments the past few months. But I’ve been playing regularly. 🙂 These are my not-so-secret responses that I’m collecting in a monthly post so…thanks for the challenge. (Really? I pegged you for that last one…)
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