June 20, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about having to wait. Who is waiting and what for? Think about how the wait impacts the character or the story. Go where the prompt leads!
(It doesn’t lead far, in my case. But how far can one be led in 99 words?)
She waited.
It had been three hours since she had hurriedly torn a sheet of paper from her dairy and scribbled her number upon it. And when, reaching out awkwardly and thrusting it into his hand, she had felt an electricity passing between them, as though they were exchanging atoms.
And now she imagined him sitting in a café somewhere carefully examining each digit as though it were part of a secret code. She pictured him carefully transferring that code to his phone and pausing to allow himself a moment to dream of a future.
For which she waited.
Written for: https://carrotranch.com/2019/06/21/june-20-flash-fiction-challenge/
nicely done.
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lol sadly all too many people’s fate
… waiting forever for that date!
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👏👏Bravo!
That’s quite a challenge actually. I’d have trouble limiting my words.
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Yes…. it’s a bit hard to create anything that actually makes any sense in that space …
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Enjoyed this 🙂
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Such romantic foolishness. Well done fitting it all in.
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Thank you Goldie. The fact is that I AM a fool for love.
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Well done, a moment caught in 99 words and yet it allows us to imagine so much more.
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