This is a confection generated by a 10 minute flash fiction exercise at our November 2023 Writers’ Circus meeting.
The Topic/Title given was “What I can hear”.
Under pressure of this time limit, this is what came to mind.
Takes about two minutes to read.
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I hope this little piece of candy floss writing might amuse.
When we manage to find our way to Peebles via Carluke (not easy from the new M8 heading East), the opening sentence in the story applies to us.
Behind us to the North is the edge of the Glasgow-Edinburgh industrial belt and ahead, to the South are rolling hills and green fields filled with sheep, cattle and wind turbines!
I do like the song featured in the title.
Here is a YouTube link
https://youtu.be/Fjufjv4rH0s?si=Q4EoawQ9xVPzJ_vK
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This is another tale based on a conversation with my grandson Drew (aged 8).
The entire story as written is almost verbatim from a journey we made through heavy traffic.
I suppose part of my motivation in publishing it here is to provided a record for my sons Stuart and Craig and perhaps for my five grandsons in the future at a time when they might be interested.
If you are wearying, skip through the indented part and scan the dialogue sections alone.
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This story was written for a Writers’ Circus challenge entitled “Outside in”.
It is a compilation of snippets from conversations with my grandon Drew (7) as we travel from his home to football training.
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This story is a response to a Writers’ Circus challenge for May 2023:
“Write a story in 100 words inspired by “Sliding Doors.”
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Sometimes when we are on our travels an idea occurs and I reach for my iPad and begin tapping.
Most of these snippets don’t ‘take’ and languish unfinished.
Looking for something else in my iPad library, I found this one and thought it worth polishing.
I hope it might amuse, over a morning coffee?
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An insight into the life of a modern entrepreneurial Glasgow girl depicted in a stream of consciousness telephone monologue.
Delivert in Glasgow vernacular, so it is!
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Drew our seven year old grandson was heading for footie training but he had lost his gloves.
Reluctantly he choose another pair from the Hat and Glove box but he was not happy.
This is a tale which tells what transpired.
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This madcap tale was written in response to a Writers’ Circus challenge which gave us the theme:
UNBELIEVABLE
Read on, every word is true!
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This second ‘shaggy dog story’ came to mind and demanded to be written.
Read it over morning coffee, why don’t you?
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