Louise, with the “The Storyteller’s Abode” has provided our prompt photo this week. Thank you Louise!
Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
1. A prompt photo will be provided each Tuesday to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo prompt with your story.
2. Linking for this challenge begins on Tuesday and runs to the following Tuesday.
3. Please credit photo to photographer
4. The story word limit is 100 – 150 words (+ – 25 words). Please try and stay within this limit.
5. Pingback to the challenge post in your story’s post.
6. This is a flash fiction challenge (stories in 100-175 words or less) and each story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Therefore, no serial (continuation) stories. They become too complicated for our readers.
7. Add your story to the InLinkz Link-up (Blue Froggy button). If you need link-up instructions, please email me at mepricelessjoy@gmail.com
8. Remember, half the fun is reading and commenting on each other’s stories.
The fog cleared. The grey sky was slowly breaking. The sea hadn’t calmed down yet. The waves thrashed the small boat inside. The body inside didn’t seem to notice. A spirit stirred, a shadow danced along the door frame.
The October storm comes every year. It builds from nothing. The radar shows clouds growing. The wind doesn’t have a source. It swirls toward the sky. The rain seems borne from it, not the sea or clouds.
Every year one victim lies on the water. The end is always drowned out of the poor soul. If they could only figure out how this one drowned inside the boat.
The shadow fades, it’s journey finished until next year.
An intriguing tale, Mark. I don’t think I’d want to live near that lake! Nicely done. 🙂
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Neither do I. It’s so reminescent of the Amityville Horror boat house to me.
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A delicious mystery! I am intrigued! Great story.
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Thanks for the kind words. It was prefect place of a little mean spirited fun. Always great when the story takes you through it.
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Very interesting and enjoyable shadow tale. BTW I think you have a typo in last sentence of 2nd paragraph. It says itn…you might have meant it, 🙂
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Thank you, I’ll go back and take care of it. Amityville flash
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Ok prefect it cut off part of reply. I wanted a comma not an “n”
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A haunting story Mark! Seems the storm takes on a life of its own to “take” one person per year, as though the storm sacrifices the human to the sea. Great story! Thank you for participating in FFfAW challenge. 🙂
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The boathouse reminded me of the Amityville Horror. It had to be supernatural story. I’ve been on vacation long time since I killed someone off in a story. Thanks as always
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LOL! I hadn’t killed someone off in a very long time and finally did the other day (I think for SPF).
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Yes I see. It’s funny how there is a guilty pleasure in killing off characters
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Haha! There IS a guilty pleasure in doing that. LOL
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