Tuesday, January 7, 2014

FSF Challenge - Moments



Writers! Share the best blog post, story, or poem you've written in 2013 here: Best of 2013



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This week's writing challenge from
Five Sentence Fiction
Lillie McFerrin Writes ) is based upon the prompt:

 Moments

What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.


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This is sort of a prose poem, and I dislike prose poems. They're not really poems, in my opinion. So this is just a weirdly formatted story. So don't tell anyone about this...




Never Enough



Image source: http://lilliemcferrin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/moments1.jpg


     He needed a moment to hide his fear when she said "yes" to the prom.
     Then he hesitated a moment before his first kiss.
     A few years later, he took a moment to stare into her eyes when she said she would marry him.
     And he said he wanted a moment as he stood by her bed when they told him she hadn't survived the birth of their child.
     But there weren't any left. 



Original image source: http://lilliemcferrin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/moments1.jpg


© 2012-2013 K. R. Smith All rights reserved

18 comments:

  1. Such a play of emotion, anxiety and fear, hope and joy, loss and pain. Very well written!

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    1. Thanks! There is quite a range of feelings in that little story!

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  2. how beautifully you've weaved a story of lifetime around the term moment... Superb!

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    1. Thank you! I don't think I've ever used the prompt word so much in a post - I was worried it might be overdone.

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  3. Excellent. You said so much, in so few words. I really like this one. Powerful emotion.

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    1. Thanks! I have been trying to shorten my FSF posts after seeing how well others can write a story in so few words.

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  4. Oh how heartbreaking. Beautiful piece.

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    1. Thanks! It's a little different than what I normally write, and it's good to know that it works!

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  5. This is a beauty ... touched me real deep.

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    1. Thank you for your kind comment - and for your time in reading and commenting! It really does mean something when readers let me know what they think!

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  6. This is so heart wrenchingly beautiful. The two sides of life, the very best, and the very worst. You wrote a stunner for this prompt!

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    1. Thanks! That's the first time I ever got a story described as a stunner!

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  7. The moments you create are so precious and heart breaking. That last line has left a lump in my throat such is the emotion. A very powerful journey. x

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    1. Thanks! That last line does stop and make you think.

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  8. That was beautiful! Really well done.

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    1. Thank you!

      As a side note, if I don't get around to everyone's posts this week, it's because my Internet connection is rather dicey right now. Not sure where the problem is...

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  9. Ack! This was so sad. Even though I could feel it coming, it still took me by surprise. I need a warning before reading something like that!
    Nicely written though, K. You wielded your words powerfully and well.

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    1. Sorry about that! But thanks for reading it through anyway!

      I'll try a warning next time so that you'll be prepared!

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