Week 627 of #ThursThreads was a success, and y’all never disappoint. Thank you to everyone who writes each week. You are why we’re still doing this, and why we’ve made it 12 YEARS!
If you’ve just found us, welcome to the crew! May you come back again and write more great flash. A thousand thanks to Heidi Rundle for judging this week. Follow Siobhan Muir on Bluesky or check out the #ThursThreads #flashfiction group on Facebook or the #ThursThreads Group on MeWe to keep up with news, etc.
Entries:
- Bill Engleson
- Silver James
- Siobhan Muir
- Mark Ethridge
- Mark A. Morris
- David A. Ludwig
- Alexandra Minns
Honorable Mention
Alexandra Minns | Website
Heidi says: very intriguing start.
winner announcement
She wasn’t sure why she’d come. She didn’t belong here, wasn’t comfortable, especially since Dimitri was there. If she’d known, she wouldn’t have stayed. Yet…
Yeah, she thought. That’s a lie. She’d come to the restaurant in Brighton Beach with the express purpose of finding him. The hair on the back of her neck prickled as the hostess led her to a table. She didn’t have to look to know that Dimitri had eyes on her.
She sat, opened a menu, waited. It took five minutes before he slid into the chair opposite her. She prayed he couldn’t hear the rapid beat of her heart.
“Why are you here?”
She held up the menu. “Dinner?”
“You are asking or stating?”
Laying the menu on the table, she inhaled deeply to settle her nerves and to fortify them. “I…uhm…” She breathed again. “Okay. It’s like this. I have this…hobby.”
Dima smirked. “You are called Gypsy for a reason. Why are you here, Gypsy girl?”
“Someone came to me and asked about you. I looked at—”
“The signs are all there,” he interrupted.
Wide-eyed, she stared at him. He believed in signs? She’d expecting him to dismiss her theories because they came from her reading of the Tarot cards. No one ever believed her when she tried to explain what she’d read there.
“Then you know?” she asked.
“Know what?”
“Whatever you plan to do tonight, you can’t do it. Not and live.”
His smile chilled her. “Challenge accepted.”
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Congratulations SEVENTY-ONE TIME WINNER Silver, and Honorable Mention Alexandra! Don’t forget to claim your badges and display them with pride. You certainly earned it!
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