Shade Tree Birthday

50 Words: A Thrifty Word Challenge.

You should join in with your own short 50 and 100-word stories!

https://medium.com/the-bad-influence/shade-tree-birthday-c89139afe041

#medium #Writing #writingprompt #shortstories #50words #thebadinfluence

Kaya koorda,

On the 26th, which is not a date to celebrate, people in and out of Australia might like to look at and listen to the wonderful languages that resonate in the lands of Australia.

Don't know where to look?
You can find out and listen to them here, with speakers recording the 50 words project here:

https://50words.online/

More information's available at https://gambay.com.au/

#50words #indigenous #language #firstlanguages
#australia #nyoongar #noongar

If there are any other Nyoongar speakers here or other first languages speakers it might be nice to exchange some conversation.

*When Nature Bites Back*

All eyes turned to the cloud, scuddering black and full of menace.

Lightning forked from its centre to strike at random below.

Then we realised not random. A terrible precision in the strikes. Too accurate, to devastating, never a target missed.

The cloud was on a deliberate premeditated killing spree.

#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #50words #lightning

writing is time-limited ATM so shoehorning in a few shorts to keep the creative juices flowing, how about you?

I saw the island again today. This time there was no fret to blur my vision. Nothing to stop memories of the smell of brackish water puddling beneath heather roots, or that waft of ozonic decay scuttling crabwise back into the depths of my mind as I’d buried her.

#50words #amwriting #writersofmastadon #flashfiction #crimegenre #nanowrimo

*The Last Dragon*

One great golden eye turns toward the sunset, the other eyes the night. Flames lick the sky.

The villagers will come with his tribute, his sacrifice. She will be young, pretty, adorned with gems and precious metals. These he will take.

He is yet to decide if she will die.

#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #50words #dragons

The Last Dragon

One great golden eye turns toward the sunset, the other eyes the night. Flames lick the sky.

The villagers will come with his tribute, his sacrifice. She will be young, pretty, adorned with gems and precious metals. These he will take.

He is yet to decide if she will die.

#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #50words #dragons

*Make Yourself a Fresh One Instead*

Beware the third reheat. An 1100 watt microwave on full power coupled with distracted forgetfulness in between.

A cycle thrice repeated.

Something lurks within the molecules of your morning coffee that can be triggered into wakefulness if conditions are right.

Dark and dangerous it will grow, devouring all before it.

#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #50words #coffee

Make Yourself a Fresh One Instead

Beware the third reheat. An 1100 watt microwave on full power coupled with distracted forgetfulness in between.

A cycle thrice repeated.

Something lurks within the molecules of your morning coffee that can be triggered into wakefulness if conditions are right.

Dark and dangerous it will grow, devouring all before it.

#MicroFiction #FlashFiction #50words #coffee