Sharry Miller

Five Sentence Fiction - Flawed

photo source It's once again time for a Five Sentence Fiction challenge from Lillie McFerrin. This week, she posted the above photo and the word "flawed." I'd really had good intentions of getting away from Rithra's story this week and moving on to something happier, but the storm clouds in this photo just fit her too well. Clearly, I'm not ready yet to let her go. Flawed In front of every small hut a woman... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction - Detour

(photo source) Knowing that Lillie McFerrin would be posting another Five Sentence Fiction prompt, I'd been thinking to how I might continue Rithra's story (you can see other installments if you click on Rithra's Story in the topic cloud to the right). I'd come up with several scenes that seemed like they'd be a good continuation, but without knowing what prompt was coming, I didn't work any of them out on paper. This week's prompt,... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction - Silence

This week was the one year anniversary of Lillie McFerrin's Five Sentence Fiction challenge. Instead of posting a new challenge word, she suggested participants choose from the myriad words previously posted. I'm still fascinated by Rithra's story. I've written about her for the past two weeks (1 and 2), and I'm excited to see what's going to happen next in her tale. As I perused the Lillie's list of past words, there were many I... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction - Devotion

I am having way too much fun with these weekly flash fiction challenges. It's time again for Lillie McFerrin's Five Sentence Fiction challenge, and this week her word was "devotion." I decided to follow up on the story I started in response to last week's challenge word, "zombie." As always, you can follow the link above to Lillie's website to see how other writer's addressed this challenge. If you decide to play, too, be sure... Read more →

Five Sentence Fiction – Zombie

This week, Lillie McFerrin chose "zombie" as the prompt for her weekly flash fiction challenge. My first response was to groan and wrinkle my nose. I have had no interest in the current zombie fad, and no interest in writing a zombie story. I decided to be open-minded, however, and did an internet search on zombies to learn a bit more. Wikipedia reminded me that zombies (although that term wasn't always used) originated in African... Read more →