Flash Fiction Challenge – Rereading Jane Eyre

Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘My Mother’s Cottage’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to write a story about variations in property values. Check out other entries or take part yourself! My Mother’s Cottage I wished I hadn’t inherited the beautiful, but run down cottage from my eccentricContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘My Mother’s Cottage’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare”

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Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘A Thousand Paper Cranes’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to include ‘the charisma of cranes’ in the story. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Miss Martinelli’s Present ‘We’ve come to see Miss Martinelli,’ said Sally. ‘I’m afraid, my daughter isn’tContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘A Thousand Paper Cranes’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare”

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Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Speed Dating’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to include ‘a line’ in the story. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Speed Dating Lines “You’re a writer?” She nodded, expecting him to make an excuse and move away, insteadContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Speed Dating’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare”

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Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Passing on the Spear’ #99Words

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to include a fishing tale in the story. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Passing on the Spear After Ernest Hemingway’s novella ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Manolin pounded hisContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Passing on the Spear’ #99Words”

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Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Forest Bathing’ #99Words #MondayBlogs

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to write a story about forest bathing. You can use the Japanese term, Shinrin Yoku. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Inspirational Walks The Verger at Rochester Cathedral heard the author’sContinue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Forest Bathing’ #99Words #MondayBlogs”

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Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Bats’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare

This post was written in response to Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch’s weekly #99 word Flash Fiction Challenge. This week’s prompt is to include a bat in the story. Check out other entries or take part yourself! Bats ‘Granny, what do bats eat?’ I sighed wishing my daughter was here to answer her son’s question.Continue reading “Carrot Ranch #FlashFiction ‘Bats’ #99Words #SundayBlogShare”

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#CarrotRanch #FlashFiction ‘Red Ink’

Red Ink The poet always wrote with red ink. A constant reminder that his blood, the blood that pulsed through the fingers that held his pen, was red, not blue like the rippling sea, or black, like a moonless night… His blood was red, a bold, vibrant scarlet, ablaze with love or hate, sometimes sizzlingContinue reading “#CarrotRanch #FlashFiction ‘Red Ink’”