Week 700 of #ThursThreads was a success, a remarkable feat for 13 solid years. Thank you to everyone who writes each week. You are why we’re still doing this. I’m truly grateful for all y’all!
If you’ve just found us, welcome to the crew! May you come back again and write more great flash. A thousand thanks to Silver James for judging this week. Follow Siobhan Muir on Bluesky or check out the #ThursThreads #flashfiction group on Discord or the #ThursThreads Group on MeWe to keep up with news, etc.
Entries:
- Bill Engleson
- Mark A. Morris
- Eric Martell
- Nellie Batz
- Louisa Bacio
- Siobhan Muir
- Daelyn Morgana
- Miranda Gammella
- Mark Ethridge
- David A. Ludwig
- K.R. Van Horn
- Richard Gibney
- Kelly Heinen
- Sheilagh Lee
- Silver James
Mentions
Joe Hesch
Silver says: Funny “shaggy dog” story with a great sense of character and place. The reader is right there in that bar and then…mic drop! Great ending.
David A. Ludwig
Silver says: Okay. That was just a fun bit of sword and sorcery. Short, to the point, story told. The MC’s personality shone through despite the scarcity of words. That takes talent.
Alex Minns
Silver says: And that sounds like a philosophical discussion to me. Interesting bit of conversation and I suspect there’s more to the story. There are nice peeks into the personalities of the two characters.
Siobhan Muir
Silver says says: It will be interesting when Barrett gets loose and gets their hands on Eddie. Also, perfect description of cottage cheese. Just sayin’.
Sheilagh Lee
Silver says: A fun, fairy-talesque story of love. I enjoyed it. (Psst. I wonder if James was playing her in the same way she was playing him? *wink*)
winner announcement
Week 700 Winner
Eric says: Sweet, poignant, a complete story with some interesting turns of phrases. Mamie held center stage in death much as she apparently did in life. Even in so short a passage, there was a real sense of who she was and how the narrator felt about her.
Mamie’s Wake
“A toast to Mamie…may she always file her story on time and on budget.”
“TO MAMIE!!!” the gathered assembly shout, raising their glasses in honour of our departed colleague.
Many are just barely holding back tears. We are banging her out proud.
I’m smiling of course. I’d miss the old war horse journalist but we all knew the irony in my toast proposal. Mamie was a beautiful wordsmith. Wherever she was reporting from, she offered heartstrings and political panache. Human interest or hard news, she was a master.
But deadlines were her challenge.
One of her editors once told her, “Yeah, write the story. Polish the bugger up, fine tune it up the yin yang…but Mamie, we’re inches away from press time. Just get it done.”
She flung back, “Is this a philosophical question, Charlie, or just your hypertension warbling? Have I ever missed a deadline?”
She had, but not by much. Charlie Lennox granted her that but Mamie continued to ride the razor edge of punctuality.
Charlie passed a few years back and Mamie had been the one to organize us all to celebrate his career. And to make a point, she arrived late for his wake, the one she organized.
We all thought Charlie would get a kick out of that.
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Congratulations FORTY-THREE TIME WINNER Bill! Don’t forget to claim your badge and display it with pride. You certainly earned it!
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