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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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How Flash Fiction Has Improved My Writing

I started writing Flash Fiction for fun, and because it was a challenge. I read and write mostly Victorian novels, so I tend to get verbose at times! I’m trying to write more concise prose, and I find that the linguistic and mental exercise of having to cut out all the unnecessary words has beenContinue reading “How Flash Fiction Has Improved My Writing”

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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”