Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers

64th Challenge

Week of 05-03 through 05-09-2016

Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers

1. A prompt photo will be provided each Tuesday to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo prompt with your story.

2. Linking for this challenge begins on Tuesday and runs to the following Monday evening.

3. Please credit photo to photographer

4. The story word limit is 100 – 150 words (+ – 25 words). Please try to stay within this limit.

untitledThis week’s photo prompt is provided by momtheobscure.

 

“It once spanned the expanse of the shore, out to some island or another.”

I squinted. “There isn’t an island.”

“Which is why its ‘some island or another.'”

Silence.

“So what happened? To the island?”

“It sank.”

“Sank?  What is this Atlantis?”

He glanced at me pityingly. “It is Atlas, you know.”

“I thought Atlas held up the world.”

“What is this world but a bridge to the next?”

“So the myths got it wrong?”

“Only the artists, at least since man discovered the world wasn’t flat.

I turned, but he was gone. On the bridge, he waved once and leapt.

Quote For The Day 4-26-2016

“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.”

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment