FSF Challenge - Departure

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This week's writing challenge
from

Five Sentence Fiction

( Lillie McFerrin Writes )
is based upon the prompt:

Departure

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie will post a one word inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word. The word does not have to appear in your five sentences, just use it for direction.

Get FSF updates on twitter by following @5SentenceFic

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A real shorty this week...

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Left Behind

 

Image source

  

     It seemed like such a simple thing: to say goodbye. Kate was going off to a new city and a new job. This was a great opportunity for her. Jason gazed out over the runway and watched her plane lift into the sky, squinting from the sun in his eyes. That didn't hurt as much, though, as the thought that it should have been him.

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

FSF Challenge - Changes

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This week's writing challenge
from

Five Sentence Fiction

( Lillie McFerrin Writes )
is based upon the prompt:

Changes

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.

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This didn't come out as well as I'd like. Perhaps I'll do a rewrite at some point.

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Lost in the Moment

 

     Brad had heard his parent's complain for what seemed like the millionth time: "You take yourself so seriously, but you don't seem to have a clue to what path your life should take" or "That boy doesn't know if he's coming or going." He walked down the dusty road for hours, the warm summer wind blowing a thousand thoughts around in his mind, trying to figure out why they couldn't understand him or see his point of view. He closed his eyes to the summer heat, letting the dry breeze guide his steps. When Brad stopped to look behind him—or what he thought was the way he'd come—there were no traces of his footprints, all blown away by the wind. He couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry when he realized they might be right. 

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

FSF Challenge - Isolated

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This week's writing challenge
from

Five Sentence Fiction

( Lillie McFerrin Writes )
is based upon the prompt:

Isolated

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.

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This story is more about the prompt word than the picture...

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Sanctuary

Image of woman alone - source:
https://23thorns.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/alone-in-a-crowd.jpg

 

     She peeked out the window from behind the curtain, looking at the busy street below, three floors down. There were so many people, but whom could she trust? As a woman passing by appeared to look up at her, she drew away from the window, steadying the curtain so her presence wouldn't be known. It's best not to take a chance, she thought. Turning her walker around, she inched toward a worn easy chair, lowered herself gently into it, then reached over to the lamp and extinguished the light.

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

FSF Challenge - Hunt

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This week's writing challenge
from

Five Sentence Fiction

( Lillie McFerrin Writes )
is based upon the prompt:

Hunt

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.

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The right tool for the right job...

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No Need For Overkill

 

     A tall man, wearing well-worn clothes of a style that seemed out of place in the heart of the city, walked into the shop, laid a rifle on the counter, and said, "I'd like to sell this, or to be more specific, trade it for something smaller."
    "That' s nice old Springfield," the proprietor said. "What did you have in mind for a trade?"
     He glanced out the shop's window to see a finely groomed man in a tailored Italian suit unlocking the door to the offices of Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe*, Attorneys at Law, just across the street. "Oh, a .38 revolver should do, seeing how you don't need anything so big and bulky just to hunt weasels."

 * With apologies to the Three Stooges and many others...

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

Update: Starship Farragut - The Crossing

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An update to the update: from Update #33 via e-mail 04/08/2015

KICKSTARTER PERKS

"Last week, we had some additional shipments go out to folks and working to do another shipment this weekend, which we're targeting to include the INTL backers."

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A while back, Farragut Films, the folks who create the Starship Farragut stories and movies, had a Kickstarter event to raise money for their latest project, a film called The Crossing. All told, they raised $20,173 for their project. I made a donation, and one of the perks for making a donation was to be listed as a contributor on their website.

While some of the other perks have been slow in arriving (although most have been delivered), they do have me listed on their donations page. I'm on the right-hand side, about the middle. Here is a tiny part of the contributor's list (there are quite a few of them!):

Farragut Films relies on donations to create their movies. Due to licensing and copyright rules governing Star Trek, they cannot generate revenue from the finished product. The up side to that is they allow you to download the films for free!

I hope to see some of the Farragut crew in person at the 2014 Shore Leave convention this August.

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

FSF Challenge - Entrance

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This week's writing challenge
from

Five Sentence Fiction

( Lillie McFerrin Writes )
is based upon the prompt:

Entrance

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.

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An entrance can also be an exit. Just sayin'...

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Steppin' Out

  

     "I want everyone here to know," the construction supervisor screamed as he walked next to the hardening concrete of the walkway, "that I don't find this the least bit amusing. It cost a pretty penny to lay this down, and whoever did this is not only going to be fired, they're going to reimburse the company for new paving and the museum that is sponsoring the opening of this cavern to the public for lost revenue."
    The crew looked at each other shrugged.
    "For God's sake, men, setting these ridiculously huge footprints into the cement all they way to the entrance is the sort of thing I'd expect from a bunch of twelve-year-old child—"
    The supervisor cut his words short when he saw what had made the footprints leading out was now making footprints leading in.

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© 2012-2015 K. R. Smith All rights reserved