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I tried flash fiction two weeks ago and I think I’m hooked after just one story!
I meet with a group of wordy types every month for the Launceston Writer’s Group and we tried a flash fiction exercise last meeting. We each started by writing a setting and a character. Each of us spent several minutes crafting some spectacular settings and elaborate characters, only to be told they had to be passed along to our left!
So we had 15 minutes to write a story of 500 words or less with a character and setting we had just seen. Here’s what I came up with.
Scene: Pelican sitting on a wharf
Character: Boy fishing
Time limit: 15 minutes
Word count: 266
