I’ve been posting some of these Very Short Stories on Twitter. Here are five, based around the writerly life.
“Leave me alone!” he cried, but his muse had dragged him to the typewriter.
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She closed her eyes, drained, exhausted, but alive. The novel was finished.
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“One of you must go,” he said with a heavy heart, deleting the subplot from his novel.
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Type, delete, retype, hesitate. Yes, she had writer’s block.
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They found him deep under papers, notes, redrafts and planners. “A writer,” the cop shook his head, knowingly.
@mc_dulac
14 responses to “Very Short Stories”
My favorite is the last one.
Thank you and welcome to the blog! Hopefully the writer can be revived, after being buried underneath all his drafts 😉
You really do look at stories differently 🙂
I seem to have a film-noir-ish idea of writers! I always imagine them in a cramped city apartment, bills piling up, coffee steaming, dusty venetian blinds…
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Love it!
🙂
I like the way your mind works!
When I want to write microfiction and I have writer’s block, then I write about writers! Although yesterday I went to a very interesting modern art gallery and that gave me lots of ideas for some new flash fiction 🙂
I greatly enjoy your fiction. You are certainly one of the writers I enjoy following.
Thank you so much Kate! You were one of my great discoveries last year – I can’t wait to read your next posts!
Wow, that’s great to hear! I hope to post a lengthier story in the next week or so. It still needs some polishing. I appreciate the support!
Muses demand their attention 😉
They do – even for a very short story!