February 13, 2013

FFW 365 DAY CHALLENGE #44



FLASH FICTION WRITERS 365 DAY CHALLENGE

We dare you to write a short-short story, or a prose-poem, EVERY DAY using no more than 365 words, including the title.

Publish your short-short story / prose-poem, or a link to it, using the comment box available on each post.


A different picture prompt will be published every day until the end of 2013.

You don't have to participate every day.
The most important thing is to have fun writing!

3 comments:

  1. My Body

    Wash away my thoughts, my fears. Wash away the dark, the invading dark, while I sit here peacefully waiting for the moment. And the water is dark like my heart and it looks strong like I do, a stream of power flowing through my body. Wash away my past, my life, and my pain. Wash it all away, the dark, the invading dark. I stare at the camera, waiting for the motion, that insignificant click that triggers the nightmare that takes me away from myself. And I know what comes next, an apparent normalcy in a twisted place. A voice, so distant, commands me to start. I struggle to stay away. Closer, the voice sounds annoyed, aggravated. “We are wasting money, come on.” I give up. “Stretch yourself, we can’t see anything… It looks like it’s the first time you do this.” And it is. Each time I do it, it’s the first time, and the last. Tomorrow, it’ll be the first and the last time too, and I count the tiles on the wall while my body is invaded by the camera and by men...
    ©2013 Lizzie Gudkov

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    1. A poignant portrait of human misery, the awful business of human trafficking exposed, of people treated as soulless beings... Very intense, and dark, and sad. Well done!

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    2. Thank you, Camie! I wanted the text to contrast sharply with the picture yet still have some cotact points. The picture is so intense that it ended up triggering the text I posted. Great prompt! Thank you :)

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