Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge

Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 22nd April: Stories including vices

99-Word Flash Fiction Challenge April 22, 2015 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes a vice. It can be part of a character or a part of the story. The vice can be the focus or it can be subtle. Think of ways to use a vice (or multiples,Continue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 22nd April: Stories including vices”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 15th April and #1000Speak Nature or Nurture

This 99-word Flash Fiction was written in response to this week’s prompt: Nurturing a neighborly relationship and also #1000Speak on the topic of Nature or Nurture. The Adult Education Centre where I work is in a low income neighbourhood with rampant unemployment and social problems. There are many families living in tiny dwellings in uglyContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 15th April and #1000Speak Nature or Nurture”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 8th April

This 99-word Flash Fiction was written in response to this week’s Prompt: Life’s Semicolons The Letter ‘It’s arrived.” He said grimly. My unsteady fingers ripped the envelope. I held the folded letter in my hands and looked up at his furrowed brow, ‘I want to stay with you.’ He nodded and forced a smile,Continue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge 8th April”

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Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: The Day the Earth Turned Brown

I’ve just returned from a family holiday, and by family I mean three generations: Grandparents, my husband and I, our three children, and three grandchildren. It’s amazing how our children and later our grandchildren change our lives. My outlook on life first changed when I had my children, in my twenties. At that time, IContinue reading “Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction: The Day the Earth Turned Brown”

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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”