I look around for the keys, patting my pockets and scanning the ground, but they’re gone; that jerk stole my keys.
“Well, what do you think, Cheryl?”
“What do you mean ‘what do I think’?”
“Of my story! It’s a crime drama.”
“What story? Ethel, that’s one line. One line does not a story make!”
“Who said that?”
“I said that! For God’s sake you are exasperating. Let me know when you have actually written a story and I will be happy to read it.”
“Okay.”
“So, who lost their keys?”
“He’s a building security guard.”
“Ha! Some security guard!”
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Always fun to write a story for YeahWrite’s Weekly Writing Challenge. As always, I write 100 word flash fiction for this pair. Here is the prompt for Week #438:
This week’s occupation prompt, from YeahWrite #436 winner, Jen, is : a building security guard.
This week’s first sentence prompt, from YeahWrite editors, is: I look around for the keys, patting my pockets and scanning the ground, but they’re gone; that jerk stole my keys.
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Hey, I just wrote a follow-up to this story, check it out and let me know what you think… The Safebreaker’s Daughter
I think I know people like Ethel & Cheryl. 🙂
Me too. 🙂
Funny!
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Hah! I’m pretty sure I’ve met a few Ethel’s in the writing community. Funny, cute story. 😏
Thanks! She likes to dabble in everything.
This is the conversation I had with myself for the first couple of days after the prompt came out, except I didn’t call myself Ethel or Cheryl. 😉
Funny how that happens, then whammo, a story is there.
There’s a prompt out there somewhere for 6 word stories!
I think there’s a commercial now that also is going around saying tell ‘your story’ in six words.
When inspiration strikes – stay ‘keyed-up’ 🙂
That rings a bell. Maybe it’s a twitter thing. I’m sure I wrote some 6 Word Stories, but I hardly ever look at Twitter. I know I wrote some 12WordStories.