Flash Fiction! Romance Writers Weekly - #lovechatwrite

This week on Romance Writers Weekly, enjoy some Flash Fiction! For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's a writing exercise where you are given a prompt of some kind and need to write as quickly as you can, without really thinking about it, and just see what happens. This prompt was set by A. S. Fenichel:

My favorite color is yellow. Here’s the first line, you write the rest... Extra points if you use more words for yellow in the story. “Nothing more than a yellow house on the edge of town, but her emotions jumbled whenever she drove by.”

If you joined me from Jenna Da Sie, welcome! Here's my contribution:

Nothing more than a yellow house on the edge of town, but her emotions jumbled whenever she drove by. It was the memories that did it—pillow fights and late night sharing of secrets, giggles and tears. How Tawnie had wished that she could stay there forever, never have to go back to her own home, bleak and cheerless. To her, the yellow house was a young girl's dream childhood, wrapped in daisy-coloured siding and crisp white trim.

But it had only been a dream.

Tawnie clicked on the indicator and took the left turn, leaving the yellow house behind her. She refused to look in the rearview mirror. It was just a house, after all. Belinda no longer lived there. The family had deserted it after the tragedy, and though they'd just moved a few blocks away—nothing was too far from anything else in this small, rural town—it might as well have been the moon. Tawnie was no longer invited over, no longer welcome.

The dream had become a nightmare.

"It wasn’t my fault," she told herself fiercely, clenching the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles showed ivory through her skin. "It was an accident. Everyone knows that."

She had clung to that for eleven years. She had to believe that no one thought she was responsible, that she had done it on purpose. Anything else would be unbearable.


What do you think happened? How would you finish this story? I'd love to you’re your ideas in the comments!

And once you've done that, be sure to skip over to the creator of this Flash Fiction prompt, A.S. Fenichel  and see what she came up with!
 

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WHEN TIME FALLS STILL has been nominated for a RONE Award - one of the most prestigious competitions for independent authors. 

​The next stage is determined by reader votes, May 15 - 21 at www.indtale.com. Only six books make it to the next stage, so it will be stiff competition. I'm really hoping I can rely on your support - but only if you truly think Justice and Charlotte deserve to move on. So if you've had a chance to read it, be sure to let the judges know what you think next week!

Thank you!