Today’s blog is the first in a sporadic series of flash fiction events. Every week (or two) I will present the first few paragraphs of a flash fiction story on the blog. The rest of the story will be available only to the subscribers. Yes, it’s a shameless ploy to build subscriptions.
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How do I come up with the fiction? I will pick a random topic and write for one hour on that topic. Facebook, phone calls, dog trips to the yard, all will interfere in the hour but at the end of it I will have a finished story. This forces me to be more concise and crisp in my writing. How do I pick the topic? I’ll type a nonsense word in to the Google search engine. I will hit the image tab and spin the mouse down and take the picture at the bottom of the page. Yup, fairly random.
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The noise was deafening. Mike’s heart wanted to skip a beat but it was pounding too fast to take a break. To an observer, the ATM didn’t make a sound when it flashed TRANSACTION DENIED on the screen and spit out the slip of paper showing a balance of $18.00 in his account. Inside of Mike’s skull it was as though a bomb had gone off.
He backed up and crashed down on the stool in front of the slot machine. He’d tapped the card a few times this weekend, but there’s no way that he’d wiped out $7500 in just two days. He looked in his wallet and pulled out the wad of crumpled receipts. They totaled just over $6800. He scoured his jeans and found another wad of slips that added almost $500 to the total. Take into account a couple of meals at the casino’s restaurants and it was like the screen on the ATM writ large in his head.
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