Month: May 2023

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Response – JSW Prompt 5-11-2023

The JSW Challenge is open to anybody who wishes to participate. Using the writing prompt, write a flash fiction no longer than 300 words and post it to your page. The Challenge starts on Monday and runs through Sunday each week. Please remember to link your story back to this post so everyone can read your entry.

“What do you mean it does now?”

“Just what I said.”

“You can’t just change things out of nowhere.”

“Yes, I can. It didn’t work that way and now it does.”

“But that’s not fair.”

“Fair is as fair does.”

“That means nothing.”

“It means that fair is fair.”

“I don’t know what you are saying.”

“I’m saying that things work like this now and it is as fair as anything else.”

“You can’t just change things.”

“Why not?”

“Why not!”

“Yes, why not?”

“Well, because things work a certain way and that is the way it is.”

“Not anymore.”

“Ah, you make my head hurt.”

“Then stop trying to force things to be a certain way. Things change.”

“But not like this.”

“Yes, they do.”

“No, they don’t.”

“Forget it.”

“See, I told you that things worked this way now.”

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Response – JSW Prompt 5-22-2023

The JSW Challenge is open to anybody who wishes to participate. Using the writing prompt, write a flash fiction no longer than 300 words and post it to your page. The Challenge starts on Monday and runs through Sunday each week. Please remember to link your story back to this post so everyone can read your entry.

“What’s it done this time?”

“I got into Julliard. Never saw that coming.”

“We knew you’d get it if they just took the snot out for a change.”

“Thank you.”

“You are welcome. Now just go up there and show them what they missed when they didn’t let you in the first time.”

“I plan to.”

His mind snapped back to the present and Chris hesitated a moment before he boarded the plane. The band may support him in this, but they didn’t believe he was coming back. That was what hurt, even worse than when he’d been denied entry to the school.

But the world was werid, that was for sure, took you to places you never thought you would go. To things you never thought you would achieve. And here he was achieving them and going there to fulfill a dream he’d given up on years ago. Not given up on, but put on the list of Unlikelees.

He could stay and make the band happy, but he couldn’t. Oh, he knew they were happy for him, it was just that coming back thing that stood between them. It was only a year. He trusted them to wait. Why couldn’t they trust him to come back?

With a shrug, he boarded the plane and found his seat. Too much to worry about. He’d just have to let them find out about the Universe’s plan on their own.

The plane took off and disappeared into the blue sky.