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“Flight Training,” #Flash #Fiction

Colleen M. Chesebro

The November 28, 2019, Carrot Ranch Prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about winners. Who are they, what’s the mood, and what did they win? Express emotion or subdue it. Go where the prompt leads!

Respond by December 3, 2019.

Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay

Tina balled up the award notice and threw it on the floor. She stomped out of the room.

A chorus of voices questioned, “Miss Henshaw, didn’t she win?”

“Yes,” she answered. “Remember, this challenge wasn’t about winning. It was about determination and whether you gave up or kept trying.”

“Yet, she still won,” whispered Mary.

“Ah, but you gave up, Mary,” Miss Henshaw quipped. “Look outside.”

A crowd gathered at the window. Outside, Tina attempted to mount her broom. Her magic fizzled, and she landed face first in the mud. Yet she kept trying. At long last, she flew.

©2019 Colleen M. Chesebro

Come fly with me! Write some flash fiction this week!

35 thoughts on ““Flight Training,” #Flash #Fiction”

  3. Thank you for following my blog. Even there is nothing interesting. I am keeping it for searching interesting pages like yours. I am not so huge fan of FB, actually I haven’t been there for long time. I would love to gather info and interesting pages out of FB.

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  10. Hello Colleen, I am sorry but I had to unsubscribe from you. I do not handle these pages so well, and after every time someone comments your post I get a notification. Could you please advise me how to be subscribed to you, and not get notification of every comment you have? I had almost 100 e-mails today. Almost all notifications of people, who commented to you 🙂

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  11. Hello Colleen, I had to unsubscribe from your pages 😦 I get notifications every time someone comments your posts. I would like the articles (blogs) you write, but not all the comments. How am I supposed to follow you, without having every notifications of someone commenting your post? Sorry, I am still learning to use these pages.

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  12. Aww, what a cute story! Reminds me a bit of this TV cartoon I liked called “Little Witch Academia,” wherein a young witch is terrible at magic but won’t give up because it’s her dream.

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