Welcome back to the home of #ThursThreads for Week 704. Year Lucky 13! The last year of the cycle, the Moon Year. To those who keep coming back, I’m delighted to see you again!
Today is Thursday and that means it’s time to start flashing on #ThursThreads, the challenge that ties tales together. Want to keep up each week? Check out the #ThursThreads #flashfiction group on Discord and Facebook.
Need the rules? Read on.
Here’s how it works:
- The prompt is a line from the previous week’s winning tale.
- The prompt can appear ANYWHERE in your story and is included in your word count.
- The prompt must be used as is. It can be split, but no intervening words can be inserted or tenses changed.
Rules to the Game:
- This is a Flash Fiction challenge, which means your story must be a minimum of 100 words, maximum of 250.
- The story must be new writing, not a snippet from something published elsewhere with the prompt added.
- Incorporate the prompt anywhere into your story (included in your word count).
- Post your story in the comments section of this post
- Include your word count in the post (or be excluded from judging)
- Include your social media handle or email in the post (so we easily notify you)
- The challenge is open 7 AM to 8 PM Mountain Time US.
- The winner will be announced on Friday, depending on how early the judge gets up.
How it benefits you:
- You get a nifty cool badge to display on your blog or site (because we’re all about promotion – you know you are!)
- You get instant recognition of your writing prowess on this blog!
- Your writing colleagues shall announce and proclaim your greatness on Bluesky, MeWe, Discord, and Mastodon, etc.
Our Judge for Week 704:
Dead Thing Specialist, Mining Geologist, and Gamer, George Varhalmi.
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And now your #ThursThreads Challenge, tying tales together.
The Prompt:
“Just pay attention.”
All stories written herein are the property (both intellectual and physical) of the authors. Comments do not represent the views of the host and the host reserves the right to remove any content. Now, away with you, Flash Fiction Fanatics, and show us your #ThursThreads in the Moon Year. Good luck!
The Obituary of Frank Fellows
The Fellow’s family along with the National Walking Without A Care Society are sad to report the sudden passing of their erstwhile family patriarch, and founder of the NWWACS. Franklyn Fitzgerald Fellows two weeks ago this coming Saturday.
Frank leaves three ex-wives, an untabulated number of children…and we assume some grandchildren, his mostly blind support dog, Donald, and our 300 Society members.
Always a disarming albeit distracted fellow, Frank was a ferocious advocate for the rights of humans to walk wherever they pleased. Eschewing all forms of motorized travel, except for his recently acquired e-bike that didn’t seem to get a whole lot of use, Frank proved to be a formidable advocate for the rights of everyone to jaywalk, to trespass, to move their feet in harmony with the occasional undulations of the earth.
One unfortunate yet constant result of his libertarian sauntering advocacy involved numerous court appearance. Frank’s legal efforts to free humanity from the constraints of cross walking signage, and all manner of authoritarian efforts to control access to anywhere did cause him some endless grief, financial specifically. Strangers were constantly yelling at him to just pay attention to coming traffic. Alas, the last warning from a bystander probably should have been heeded.
There will be no formal memorial but friends and loyal supporters of NWWACS and unattached pedestrians are encouraged to jaywalk at will this coming Saturday as we honour Frank’s devotion to walking wherever and whenever the heck you want to.
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