Use each subject (bird, tree, pear, flower, and field) in this image to craft your flash fiction piece. Maybe your narrator climbed a tree in a field to pick a pear and while eating it, they are watching the leaves on the tree blow and the birds fly? Hey, it’s your story. Do what you [...]

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Okay, I decided it would be a good time to introduce something new to One Real Story. But what? Well, that’s for you to decide. Vote in our poll for what you want to see on One Real Story and if you don’t see it there just drop me a note in the comments section.

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Carve Magazine: One Hundred Santas
By Liz Skillman
Liz Skillman’s One Hundred Santas is a precautionary tale of the dangers of living a life based too heavily on some intangible idea rather than reality. It warns that there is just as much risk in inaction as there is in action.
This compelling short story starts out in [...]

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Feeling Lucky?
As seven is supposed to be a lucky number and this is the seventh flash fiction prompt on One Real Story, I think luck or the lack of is a good theme. Think about the most lucky or unlucky event that has occurred in your life. Okay, so maybe there are quite a few [...]

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by Adam P. Rothstein

I shall bathe in your blood, I find it’s best,
Superior to all scented soap,
Then I’ll rip your heart clean from its nest,
And squeeze it ’til it beats its last hope.I kill without remorse, neither pity nor shame,
They call me monster, perhaps it’s true,
Just know when you see me within your door frame,
I [...]

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Tin House: Uncertainty
by Joshua Ferris
Uncertainty, a short story by Joshua Ferris, explores themes of powerlessness and the prospect of bleak futures over which we may have no control.
He does this through the eyes of two main characters, a young, married couple, living in New York. Nate is a climatologist, who teaches and researches global [...]

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