Yes, my brother and sister bloggers and writers. My father was a wife beater. It was a very painful time in my life. I was just a kid. He stopped beating my mother when I was around fifteen, but kids don’t forget. My father’s dead now. Mom, bless her soul, is still living.
Being the oldest son, I always felt guilty about not protecting my mother. But knowing my father, if I had ever raised a hand against him he probably would have killed me. He was a professional boxer before he got married and worked in the steel mills in Pittsburgh while I was growing up.
You want to know where ideas for flash fiction stories come from? They come from life. The following 115-word story is based upon my life…
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Basic Training
My father was a wife beater. So in 1964 at the age of seventeen I enlisted in the army to get away from home…
“Hey, Carter!” Murphy called across the barracks. Everyone was working on his gear. I sat on my foot locker spit shinning my boots.
“Yeah!” I called back.
“You ever eat a woman?”
Eat a woman? I really didn’t know what that meant. Besides, I got flustered around girls. All the older men in the barracks were listening.
“Sure,” I called back.
“Oh, yeah,” he called. “Well, tell me. How did it taste?”
“Salty,” I called.
Several of the older guys laughed appreciatively. Murphy did not harass me for the rest of the day.
The End
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How To Write A 100-Word Short Story
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Hello, creative writers, writing majors and my Flash Fiction Fanatics. The beauty of flash fiction is that it has everything in it that a regular-length short story has in it. It’s just that flash fiction is a lot shorter. Sometimes it’s only around 100 words.
Now, the Old Soldier likes to write within the 400-to-900-word range. That seems my best range. I feel comfortable writing a story that’s 400 to 900 words long. But every once in a while I like to step out of my comfort zone and write a really short flash fiction story. Like 100 words.
Writing a story of any length is a lot easier if you remember that a short story is made up of these three things:
The following story is around 116 words.
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Basic Training
My father was a wife beater. So in 1964 at the age of seventeen I enlisted in the army to get away from home…
“Hey, Carter!” Murphy called across the barracks. Everyone was working on his gear. I sat on my foot locker spit shinning my boots.
“Yeah!” I called back.
“You ever eat a woman?”
Eat a woman? I really didn’t know what that meant. Besides, I got flustered around girls. All the older men in the barracks were listening.
“Sure,” I called back.
“Oh, yeah,” he called. “Well, tell me. How did it taste?”
“Salty,” I called.
Several of the older guys laughed appreciatively. Murphy did not harass me for the rest of the day.
The End
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