Flash Fiction Friday
Hello friends and welcome to Flash Fiction Friday, where we share some of the pieces written during our live storytelling event! These stories were written in 5 minutes to a blind-drawn prompt. Some are unfinished, some are only a few words, but they are all the beautiful product of spontaneous creativity.
If you read a story here that you wrote at a Story Wars event and want writing credits, shoot us an email and we’ll add your name!
Here we go…
Prompt: “A list of funny excuses to get out of homework”
To whom it may concern:
By now you may have noticed this is not the homework assignment. You may not have noticed I slipped this in the bin while you were scolding Andrew M. for standing on his desk. I would like to take this opportunity to explain why it is that I was unable to finish today’s assignment. The truth is: I’m in love. I was staring at Courtney S. when you handed out the worksheets yesterday and without thinking I wrote her name on the page. But I didn’t write it just once–I wrote it until the lead gave out on this crappy mechanical pencil and then all I could do was trace her name. I felt the raised letters I had written as then burned their way into my heart. So I ask you now, Ms. Jones, how could I have been expected to do long division under these circumstances?
