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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge: Symptoms

This week, at Carrot Ranch’s weekly flash fiction challenge, Charli Mills asked us to write a story to reveal a character’s symptoms in 99 words exactly, no more, no less. The symptoms of Dementia are devastating. My flash deals with the symptoms of Alzeimer’s, which is the most common type of dementia, by focusing onContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge: Symptoms”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge: Ways to Unplug a Bully’s Power

There’s often no easy way of stopping bullies, unless they decide to stop themselves. Bullies have the advantage over those who are bullied. They usually exert their tyranny because they are in a situation of power over others, or they inspire fear in those around them. We’ve all come across some of them at someContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge: Ways to Unplug a Bully’s Power”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Turquoise

This week’s Carrot Ranch 99-word flash fiction is on the topic of turquoise. Some years ago, I visited a Ute Reservation, and I bought a turquoise stone necklace as a present for a friend. She has beautiful blue-turquoise-blue eyes, and the minute I saw the gem, I thought of her. I know her well, soContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Turquoise”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Compassion

This week’s Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge deals with a much-needed topic: Compassion. Charli reflects upon the meaning of compassion, bringing up such definitions such as “sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others”. She points out that compassion unlike pity is “accompanied by an urge to help”, whereas pity “sometimes connotes slightContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Compassion”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Nutty Aunts

I’m back at Carrot Ranch, joining in the short fiction challenge. Thank you for having me 🙂 Thanks Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch for organizing and for for this week’s prompt! Nutty Aunts I used to have ten aunts. Now unfortunately only two are still alive. Although I was fond of all of them, IContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: Nutty Aunts”