Sunday Flash Fiction Special #4

Each Sunday in April, I’m posting a piece of 100-word flash fiction I wrote for a Janet Reid writing contest (see HERE for the full explanation). For this last Sunday in April, here’s my only win to-date. The rules for this were a little different:

THE “GOTCHA KNICKERS TWISTED, YO?” CONTEST

(December 15, 2011)

Rules: Write a poem, or a story in a poem, that’s reversible. That means the lines form a poem reading down AND up. And just to make things LOTS of fun, it’s fewer maximum words this time: 60.

My entry:

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“hard candy
sucks,”
the child
said;
his father
disapproving.

↑
disapproving,
his father
said,
“the child
sucks
hard candy!”

Janet was impressed that not only did I complete the challenge with only 9 words, but that I also reversed the sensibility. As you can tell, I’m really rather pleased with this–especially since I don’t consider myself anywhere close to being a competent poet.

I should also note that if you have been the slightest bit impressed with my efforts, please go check out the original contests and read the other entries. I’m pleased with how mine turned out, but some of the other writers are insanely talented, and do this much better than me.

See you tomorrow for my “X” story…