Flash Fiction Friday

I wasn’t sure if I was going to do a Flash Fiction Friday this week, but then Janet Reid announced a new writing contest, so I decided this would be a good warm-up.

The Random Word Generator gave me:

• formula
• menu
• binder
• test
• carpenter

Here’s the 100-word story I came up with:

The hall was silent save for the scratching of pencils and the hum of the air conditioning. Jill glanced at the clock: fifteen minutes left. The formula hadn’t changed in the last ten minutes, and she was no closer to solving it. Anxiety crawled up her chest like an army of carpenter ants.

Deep breaths.

Not one answer on the menu seemed possible. Jill closed her eyes and tried to visualize her binder full of math notes. She opened it. The pages were blank.

Five minutes.

It was just one question out of the entire test.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…

Have a great weekend! And don’t forget to check out Janet’s contest tomorrow…