Janet Reid's The SnappsyFlash Fiction Writing Contest!
In honor of my
new best friend Snappsy The Alligator, I think we need a writing contest!Prize
will be a copy of Snappy The Alligator (Did Not Ask To Be In This Book) which I
love with all my cold little heart! (yes I bought two copies, one for me, and
one for me you.)
The usual rules
apply:
1. Write
a story using 100 words or fewer.
2. Use
these words in the story: snap, gator, ask, tie, iron
3. You
must use the whole word, but that whole word can be part of a larger word. The
letters for the prompt must appear in consecutive order. They cannot be backwards.
Thus: iron/irony is ok but tie/tile is not
4.
Post the entry in the comment column of THIS blog post.
5. One
entry per person. If you need a mulligan (a do-over) erase your entry and post
again. It helps to work out your entry
first, then post.
7.
Titles count as part of the word count (you don't need a title)
11.
You agree that your contest entry can remain posted on the blog for the life of
the blog. In other words, you can't later ask me to delete the entry and any
comments about the entry at a later date.
12.
The stories must be self-contained. That is: do not include links or footnotes
to explain any part of the story. Those extras will not be considered part of
the story.
Contest opens:
9am, Saturday 9/2 ~~ Contest closes: 9am, Sunday 9/3
"Where’s your nanna?"
"She’s napping. Why?"
"She said she needed
some muscle and asked for a gat or a tire iron. Tire iron’s too heavy, so I got her this
Beretta Pico .380."
"Nanna said gat?"
"Yeah, she must love old
movies."
"God, don’t give her a
gun. She’s dangerous! We had to take her license and car away because she
drinks."
“Hey, cutie, is that my heater?”
“Nanna, you don’t know how…”
“I ain’t no Dumb Dora.” She grabbed the gun. “It’s
puny, but it’ll do.”
She pointed it at her grandson. “Now, sonny, about my car and
license…”
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