Friday, December 30, 2011

flash fiction friday #41

experimenting with trigger, please tell me if it easier, harder, if you hate it and never want it like this again; insteada my usual inclusion list (send me starters+closers!) this is a few short groupings gathered into a longer list of easier words. we go see; i feel i'll be vex with meself, but the point of fff hadda be experimentation+challenge wherever i can find it.
with no further ado, flash fiction friday #41 (inclusion)trigger: dare, dear, deer, fair, fare, fear, hair, hare, hear, here.
rules of engagement:
you will send in your suggestions for flash fiction friday triggers (starter sentences/phrases, closers, titles, inclusions, etc.) anytime during the week up to 11.55a.m. friday, trinbago timezone; i will post the new fff trigger by noon friday trinbago timezone.*
if your trigger is not chosen and you think it is too brilliant not to be chosen, you will send it in again the next week.
you will write an anecdote, short story, or novel length prose poem using the trigger provided.
you will add comments and appropriate linkage to my trigger-post indicating your desire to participate and the completion of your piece (don't need a blogger/gmail account to comment on my blog).
you may join in at any time prior to the deadline.*
you will display your piece as a post on your own blog (or as a comment on my trigger-post or fasbook note or whatever, once we can all read it- please make sure we can all access the link to read it, not just those who are your friends on fasbook; there's a way to create public links for that, right?).
you will be done by monday noon trinbago timezone.*[in light of collective busyness and my general mentality, i not pressed about these deadlines 'cause i'd rather have fun reading late than never, so if you want to fff past deadline, go through hard, just make sure you comment on the appropriate trigger-post so we know which it belongs to, and if is a real old trigger, comment on the most recent post as well so we know something new to back-back+read...if nobody fffs i'll leave the same trigger up until at least 1person other than myself writes a piece]*
write fresh!
walk good.

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Blogger sweet trini said...

i in, and mostly done but cyah stop editing this 1 for some reason...but nobody else in thus far so no new trigger needed yet, so i'ma keep editing mine until somebody else in, then post mine before new-trigger-friday...sense? walk good.

9:29 am  
Blogger sweet trini said...

inner archivist made me backback all the way to here to say i finally posted my attempt, alongside a new trigger on april13,2012, although nobody else (to my knowledge) posted an fff#41...walk good.

5:43 pm  

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

fff#40

was feeling dramatic; tell me wha' you think, nah...
flash fiction friday #40 (inclusion)trigger: bare, beer, bier, bear.
i hated the bed in that room, like a bier, stiff platform on a bare bones frame bolstered with bedsheets instead of funeral flora. plus, growing up in the tropics i had no positive context for attics- places where eerily-resembling children were locked into creepy incestuous relationships, where crazily aging family members were kept away; the staircase warned at every step this was not for the faint of heart, and the feint of heart wouldn’t make the top.
i had been a secret in the attic.
the foreign cousin.
by then i was old enough to enjoy it somewhat. i decided to let them think me exotic and enjoy the perks. the attic wasn’t one. when i left that place, i left it far enough from my mind that i was shocked to recognise the faded, peeling wallpaper that was the most depressing thing about the cramped space- little yellow and pink and blue bears dancing, riding tricycles, juggling, bears wearing party hats, wearing tiaras, groucho-marx-noses+glasses, bears pretending to babies they aren’t in an attic.
thoughts of paleskinned inbred babies hidden away up there until they faded into those whispering walls haunted my sleepspace from approach, making me long for now less-terrifying jumbies of home, to trade some soucouyant sizzle or douens calling for those creaky stairs.
climbing them this time, opener in hand, my unopened bottle in the other clatters against the railings as a barrier to the sound clawing at me from a grave piled with small corpses. when i open the door and the room pulls me the need to breathe outside air drags me across it to open the tiny window. i slide to the ground, lean my head against the windowsill and crack the beer with a toast to bringing the right demons to face down this unexpected return to my crypt.


walk good.

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Blogger Katness said...

Loving it. Ending was sweet.

12:30 pm  

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Friday, December 23, 2011

flash fiction friday #40; prezzie-for-me

at this time of year i remember the simple but valuable gift that is time with loved ones, so this flash fiction friday #40 (inclusion)trigger speaks, simply, to the crucial elements of community; scandal, celebration, morbidity, plus a wild animal: bare, beer, bier, bear.
rules of engagement:
you will send in your suggestions for flash fiction friday triggers (starter sentences/phrases, closers, titles, inclusions, etc.) anytime during the week up to 11.55a.m. friday, trinbago timezone; i will post the new fff trigger by noon friday trinbago timezone.*
if your trigger is not chosen and you think it is too brilliant not to be chosen, you will send it in again the next week.
you will write an anecdote, short story, or novel length prose poem using the trigger provided.
you will add comments and appropriate linkage to my trigger-post indicating your desire to participate and the completion of your piece (don't need a blogger/gmail account to comment on my blog).
you may join in at any time prior to the deadline.*
you will display your piece as a post on your own blog (or as a comment on my trigger-post or fasbook note or whatever, once we can all read it- please make sure we can all access the link to read it, not just those who are your friends on fasbook; there's a way to create public links for that, right?).
you will be done by monday noon trinbago timezone.*[in light of collective busyness and my general mentality, i not pressed about these deadlines 'cause i'd rather have fun reading late than never, so if you want to fff past deadline, go through hard, just make sure you comment on the appropriate trigger-post so we know which it belongs to, and if is a real old trigger, comment on the most recent post as well so we know something new to back-back+read...if nobody fffs i'll leave the same trigger up until at least 1person other than myself writes a piece]*
write fresh!
walk good.

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Blogger Katness said...

I left this in the prompt comment section on FB, but being thorough because I'm too excited we're on the word grind again. Word?

fff#40: You Hear That, Father?
http://bit.ly/uqaat8

11:24 pm  
Blogger sweet trini said...

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10:43 am  
Blogger sweet trini said...

yay! eh reading until i finish mine but your being done mean new trigger tomorrow regardless...mwah!
in+writing now, cyah wait to read! walk good.

10:44 am  
Blogger sweet trini said...

done (post immediately above this on mainpage) and excitedly off to read...walk good.

2:09 pm  

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

banana baby bjorn?

before you read another word, far less watch the images below, you must see not-for-swimwear, or miss the hilarity of the fact that my mother sent me today's teehee, but the aforelinked is way more her usual style than these; thus, coming from her (trust, click that link above) these (below) are the batch that actually shocked me:





and speaking of warm+fuzzy: back by popular request and my own selfish desires, flash fiction friday returns tomorrow.
walk good.

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