Flash Fiction: Verdict
DISCLAIMER: What follows is horribly bad writing—intentionally so. I invited Facebook friends to supply me with seven prompts: Protagonist, Antagonist, Occupation, Setting, Situation, Wildcard, and Random Character. From those seven prompts, I agreed to write a piece of flash fiction up to 1000 words, using at least five of the seven. Prompt #6 below instructs me to “Overwrite. Use lots of adjectives and adverbs.” So I did. And just for fun I threw in a bunch of clichés, too. I had to break a lot of writing rules to produce this piece. So, please read this as an illustration of how …