Flash Fictions
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  • Reads 22
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  • Parts 2
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Ongoing, First published Mar 23, 2021
In one of my classes we were given a sentence to start or end a story that was 100-200 words long . The first prompt is using the following sentence as the first line:  Five a.m. and still no phone call. The second prompt was use the following sentence as an ending:  As I opened the card, I realized I had made a terrible mistake. The third prompt was to write: Someone does something extreme to return a borrowed item from many years ago. The fourth prompt was to start with the following sentence: I turned on the 10:00 pm news only to see one of the biggest secrets of my life playing out before my eyes.
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Sex and Death in Skeleton City

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Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld. ***** When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying! [[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]] [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]