Another Thursday, another 500 Club. The rules remain the same.
1. Write 500 words based on one of the two prompts.
2. Post it to your blog.
3. Copy the first couple of lines in the comments below with a link to the full text.
But, wait! There’s more!
If you don’t have your own blog or website, and you’re just dying to play along, now you can. In the sidebar on the right you’ll find a text box where you can paste your 500 words and submit it straight to us. So go for it!
PROMPT ONE: Turn cliche on it’s ear and do the genre mash. Drop a fairy princess into a high-tech battlefield. Sprinkle some vampires into a hardboiled noir. Unleash the alien invasion on your bodice-ripping romancers. You get the idea. Go nuts.
PROMPT TWO: Take a supporting character from your current (or most recent) short story or novel and let them have the mic for a change.
Now let’s see some flash!
My entry for today: Dollar Store
I push the door open and a bell clangs against the glass. A clerk looks up from his register and I nod at him before scuffling past to the canned food items, the bins of hair gels and brushes, the school supplies.
Read on at http://wp.me/pBmxU-jK.
I tapped my pack of Lucky Strikes against the corner of the desk. I needed a drink, a stiff drink, but Frankie was still making like he had gone clean for good and the stash I normally kept in my desk was gone. The smokes would have to be enough.
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