Tag: fiction
member name: A. F. Stewart
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December 23, 2009 03:13 PM EST --
The following was written for the group Microfiction; it is not a happy Christmas story.
The challenge was to write a short piece of fiction, 500 words at most, revolving about . . .
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December 08, 2009 01:44 PM EST --
This week's genre is Fantasy . Your story may be serious or light-hearted or as silly as you like just so long as it is 100 words or less and written for the following prompt
Tell . . .
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December 07, 2009 12:32 PM EST --
The moonlight illuminated the cemetery with an eerie glow, making shadows seemingly dance around Cheryl. Dark clouds swept past the pale orb; a storm was on the horizon. “I’m here. . . .
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October 08, 2009 12:50 PM EDT --
This week's genre is Fantasy . Your story may be serious or light hearted or as silly as you like just so long as it is 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
It . . .
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July 26, 2009 05:01 PM EDT --
How to Marry a Mummy
Well, I was still alive. I could tell because I had a killer headache. I was lying prone, on something soft and comfortable. I wiggled my fingers and . . .
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November 04, 2009 05:19 PM EST --
This week's prompt is Western, the story must be 100 words or less and must contain four of something in keeping with the genre.
Old West Gunfight
The saloon doors swung open and Black . . .
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November 20, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
This week's genre is “ Your choice” .
The story should be 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
It's time for those Thanksgiving stories. . . .
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October 19, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
“Now don’t feel awkward, we’re all here to share our problems. Just tell us how you feel.” I gave our newest member of group an encouraging, sympathetic look. . . .
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July 01, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
Terror invaded Fred's mind after he plummeted from the plane and found his parachute refused to open; he knew then it had been a very bad idea to go away with the business partner. The adventure weekend . . .
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July 02, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
I wanted to share the results of the 2009 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. This contest is an international literary parody contest, to honor the memory Victorian novelist Edward George Earl . . .
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July 08, 2009 02:53 PM EDT --
It was a dark and stormy night and Sarah was driving a lonely stretch of highway. A hilltop mansion was visible on the horizon; it was Professor Dim’s house. Relief flooded her mind; . . .
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July 16, 2009 04:13 PM EDT --
Well, it's done, I’ve actually left home. The ticket is in my hand, I'm at the airport ready to fly off to Rio and meet up with Jackie. We are going to have such a time at Carnivale; . . .
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March 24, 2009 02:20 PM EDT --
...your favourite movie has robots/androids, spaceships and has the word Star in the title.
...you know the proper use of the words Frak or Frell.
...you know what BSG, MST3K or TARDIS stand for. . . .
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June 24, 2009 11:34 AM EDT --
I’ve seen the light.
I’m so sick of it. Every time I die, there it is, mocking me, like some kind of punishment. After my conscription into the Dreshen Warriors, I was so afraid . . .
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November 12, 2009 10:25 AM EST --
This week's genre is Sales pitch. The story must be 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
Pitch your idea for a new television series or movie or the next hot . . .
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December 01, 2009 06:14 PM EST --
This week's genre is Nostalgia . Write a story 100 words or less and written for the following prompt:
Tell me a story real or imagined that contains one or more of the following: . . .
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July 25, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
This story began as a post to Genre Shorties and I have now expanded it to this longer form:
My last appointment of the day was late and my irritation was rising with every tick of the wall . . .
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May 26, 2009 11:29 AM EDT --
Recently I have been I've been commenting in some discussions on the merits of self-publishing, and the one point that keeps surfacing is the quality of self-published books: they're not well edited, . . .
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July 14, 2009 07:20 PM EDT --
The following is a first draft of a new short story I wrote. Please feel free to critique.
Murdering Muse
Lyra floated near the ceiling, watching Nick type, as he ruined . . .
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November 05, 2008 03:30 PM EST --
Michael Crichton, author of such books as Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain , has died of cancer at the age of 66.
I always found his books a treat to read, and was quite shocked when I read . . .
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