Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on April 4, 2018 by Colleen M. Chesebro
An excellent collection of 99-word story gems from the participants of Carrot Ranch. Grab a beverage and have a read. ❤ Learn more about the community here: https://carrotranch.com/flash-fiction-2/rules/.
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Fingers fly fast in activity. Speed hints of passion and ability. Pianists trip fingers over keys, authors type to the speed of imagination, and tricksters ply nimble fingers.
Writers followed the lead of fast fingers and contemplated the characters attached to such digits. Each story flies with creativity.
The following are based on the March 29, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about fingers that fly.
PART I (10-minute read)
Lifetime Savingsby Ritu Bhathal
Nervously, Frank handed the package over to the girl.
“Now, be careful with that—” He paused to look at her name tag “—Jennifer. I worked hard for those dollars. Now they tell me I gotta keep it in a bank, and not under my mattress. Safety, they say. It was plenty safe with me – until they got that new cleaner in. I don’t like her. Always tidying…
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
Excellent. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😣🥀
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Thanks, Dorna. ❤
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Well done, may I say! ♥
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I love Carrot Ranch and their 99-word challenges. Great Fun. ❤
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I’ve got to try the challenge! ♥
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Please do. Go to Carrotranch.com and click on the blog button on the menu. You will find the challenge post there. ❤
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Thanks for flying all the fast fingers to your place, Colleen!
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Thank you for the reblog, Colleen. ❤
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An amazing collection. I’m proud to belong to our literary community. ❤
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I agree with you, Colleen. ❤
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