Flish fiction

[mut]

Confuzzled had a contest for super-short stories: one paragraph, five sentences or less. Dunno what the formal name is, but as far as I'm concerned: flish fiction.

Here were my three entries. No lj-cut 'cos they are super short.

The child had long since stopped breathing but Mike did not loosen his grip, pushing himself forward at an unrelenting

Comments

[avon_deer]

you seemed to get into that competition far more easily than me. I just did not get it. It was too hard. Perhaps I was over-thinking it.

[mut]

It's hard (but fun) -- it took me a while to get into the right headspace. The first story was basically a warm-up, though I didn't realize that at the time. (You probably noticed that while it was _technically_ five sentences, I had to stack a lot of clauses. It wasn't really in the right spirit -- I was trying to cram a longer piece down and it didn't really work as a result.)

[geddcoon]

Love 'em. And love how a dog is writing about one of his own kind being outsmarted by one of mine. ;)

[mut]

I was shamelessly playing to the judges on that one. :)