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Lord of Monsters – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

April 25, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission — Hop to the InLinkz party!

Image © Roger Bultot – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Lord of Monsters

All his life his friends told him he needed to change, he never was good enough. Eventually he burnt all bridges. But loneliness and old age aren’t good mates.

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Karma’s a Bitch – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

April 2, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Warning: if you’re transphobe, homophobe, or otherwise …phobe, you won’t like what follows.

Image © Jennifer Pendergast – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Karma’s a Bitch

“Look at these posters. Even the floods haven’t washed that woke stuff away.”
“I’m surprised you chose to retain your memory with that attitude.”

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Dancing – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

March 26, 2025March 26, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Dale Rogerson – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Dancing

I pity you so much. You who call yourselves human. You don’t see. You are blind. We are different.

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Up and Away – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

March 19, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Sandra Crook – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Up and Away

Up, up, and away, always reaching for the stars, never looking back.
And I am left behind.

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Sentinel – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

March 14, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Roger Bultot – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Sentinel

The drops on the glass-panes look like tears. Tears I cannot weep for they gave me no tearducts.

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The Perks Of A Mole – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

March 5, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

The Perks Of A Mole

His mind is littered with conflicting thoughts like a beach full of jetsam after a hurricane. Fitting, he thinks. The bullies moved in like whirlwinds.

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Alerta, Alerta – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

February 28, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Jen Pendergast – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Alerta, Alerta

The eyes of the garden gnome follow me as I’m digging in my garden. Surveillance drones in kitsch-look, just how the tyrants like it. Our homes are filled with them.

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The Book – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

The image was first used in April 2016. I’ll repost my old story as it is. Back then it was part of a ‘Space History’ back story about a SF that’s currently on hiatus. My ‘outrageous dystopian world’ has been overtaken by reality…

Image © Kent Bonham – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

The Book

“Hurry, Mattie, troopers are coming!” Darlene shot one tracker down and bludgeoned two more.

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Audition – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Robbie Cheadle – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Audition

“Go away, this is our onsen. Go find your own.”
“But Dad…”

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Bloody Hell! – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

January 8, 2025 by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog. Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

Image © Lisa Fox – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!