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Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 1 Oct 24

“Dad, I am a woman now. I will marry Stefano whether you like it or not. Why do you hate him so? I know you think he drinks a little too much. He sometimes gets angry and hurts an enemy. That should be expected from real men who...

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sweet love

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So You Like to Write?

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 10 May 24

I suppose we all do, some more than others, since here we are on myLot. I have mentioned before that I write poetry and submit a lot more than ever gets published, but what the heck, it keeps my brain working a lot and I enjoy...

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I was going to write about my breakfast

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 20 Feb 24

but instead thought I'd give y'all a look at a flash fiction piece I wrote this morning after seeing a writing challenge on Twitter. I hope you enjoy it. [i]On a dreary winter morning, after a night of freezing drizzle, I carried...

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An Original Flash Fiction Story

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 16 Jul 23

This is the flash fiction story I wrote for my seminar on short story writing. I hope you enjoy it. "The Peanut Butter Cups" by DW Davis The package of peanut butter cups sat on her desk right where he had left them, waiting for...

flash fiction

original story

peanut butter cups

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Nothing to write about so I made something up

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382146) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Jul 19

Who’d a thought? I’m a bit stuck for words. Well, not really but I don’t have anything in particular to write about so I thought I’d share a flash fiction that I wrote for a different website. It had to be exactly 100 words. And...

flash fiction

fiction

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Good Wednesday 5/15/19 Morning Mylotters

brendamarie @whiteream (8567) • United States 15 May 19

Good morning my dear friends, I hope everyone is doing well on this Wednesday. I was up all night again. I slept from 10pm until 1:30 am. I was up all night mylotting. I think, being up all night and being a writer go hand in...

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A Christmas story in 100 words

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382146) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Dec 18

For the last meeting of myLotter John Welford’s (@indexer) writing group, the challenge was to write a story with a Christmas theme. The story had to be exactly 100 words long. You can read John’s entertaining story here:...

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The Stillwinter's House: Flash Fiction

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 24 Jan 18

Here is the story I wrote about a certain band I "know". This story was written in 15 minutes at writing group. Turns out it is 90% true. They don't have a basement but a "back house". The rest is pretty accurate. The prompt is in...

writing

fiction

flash fiction

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A Boost to my Writing

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 24 Jan 18

As I have mentioned before, I do live streaming on the app live.me. I also watch a lot of other people do streams there. One of my favourites is a band called The Stillwinter. They don't perform on the site. They do a whole lot of...

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My writing group effort

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382146) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Nov 17

I belong to a writing group. Of course, I couldn’t attend while we were overseas but I haven’t been since I returned either. Since joining myLot, I do very little writing of fiction or any other sort. I can’t seem to get...

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Short stories

Paul White @TheRamblingMan (309) • United Kingdom 6 Mar 17

Does anyone here read short stories, the flash fiction type? I was wondering if it would be worth posting some? What do you say...good idea or a waste of time?

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Big Words

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382146) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Dec 16

I have a brochure put out by a local person which is full of grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and misuse of words. I've just edited this as I had quoted incorrectly. She talks about 'concurring' with your horse and wants to...

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The Answer to: What's Wrong with Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382146) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Dec 16

Thanks to all those who commented on my last post. Rather than write the same thing over and over I'll tell you the answer here and add a bit more. In the photo Australia is back to front so the west coast is on the right and the...

australia

writing group

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The Cake

allen0187 @allen0187 (59830) • Philippines 4 Jul 16

'Left or right?' she asked herself as she decided what road to take. She was trailing the SUV of her husband on a van she rented so as not to raise any suspicions. Her husband said that he will be out of town for a business trip,...

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The Cube

allen0187 @allen0187 (59830) • Philippines 17 Jun 16

'Quick, grab the cube! No matter what happens you must get it off this island and into the hands of The Keyholder. She will know what to do with it.' Those were her father's last words. The last of the Free Islands has fallen to...

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Stella! Stella!

allen0187 @allen0187 (59830) • Philippines 12 Jun 16

'Stella! Stella!' he shouted across the train platform. 'Somebody stop that woman!', he pleaded to the railway personnel that he saw. He was too late though. Stella, clad in her favorite black cocktail dress looked at him, turned...

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Autopilot – 25 word story

Stephen L. Thompson @oneoveralpha (434) • Brookville, Pennsylvania 7 Nov 15

Autopilot Eon after eon, dazzling stars and nebula drifted past the ship’s viewscreens. The computer knew that the crew – if still alive – would have enjoyed them. # Recently, I’ve been going through my old writing notebooks...

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scifi

flash fiction

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Why Don't I Do It?

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 23 Aug 15

Everyone I know is writing books. Or has written books. Or will be writing a book when NaNoWriMo comes around in November. I have written a lot of poetry. It's something I used to do and blog about daily. I love flash fiction...

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A little fun for the day...

bellaofchaos @bellaofchaos (11538) • United States 20 Feb 09

At one time in the lovely land of the lot a writing assignment had been passed out and everyone had gotten 20 minutes from the time the read the discussion to write a small short on the information given.. Well here I am and...

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Is The Title Of A Book Copyrighted?

Deborah L. Alten @gtargirl (5376) • United States 13 Feb 09

I just published a short story (it might be flash fiction actually) on Associated Content and it's on our church magazine blog as well. A friend just told me there is a book with the same title. Am I allowed to keep the title of...

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