AW Flash Fiction — The Library — 6/6/10

Posted by Claire

This is modified / edited from a middle grade book I started writing for my son. Not sure I boiled it down and concluded it all that well but it’s practice, practice, practice, especially trying to get the middle grade language down.

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Troy shoved his Yu-gi-oh cards into his backpack then stood. The library’s community room looked like it would burst at the seams if one more kid tried to squeeze inside. It didn’t smell too good either.

“Where are you going?” his friend, Joel, asked, looking up from his trading card duel with Ryan. Continue reading →

AW Flash Fiction — The Code — 5/30/10

Posted by Claire

90 minutes from reveal of theme word(s) to completion of piece.

Teensie picked up the notepad by the phone and noted the faint impressions left behind by too heavy of a hand on a previous page. She held it to the light and thought she read “tell her 530, lvg hr, lv nthr, div old”

A code of some sort. She checked again to make sure she’d read the letters correctly. Uncertain still, she sought a pencil and gently colored over the impressions. Yes she had it right.

Tell her Continue reading →