Flash Fiction: Border Crossing

Flash fiction partly inspired by Image Writing Prompt #289.

The Dark Netizen

Sivak was tense. However, he knew he could not let it show in his body language. Everything depended on it.

Sivak joined the line of cars waiting to clear the security check. The border crossing was one of the most tightly guarded areas. Sivak knew getting through the check post was not going to be easy. However, if he got through here, Sivak knew he was a free bird. The line of vehicles which had nothing to declare was much longer than the other line. Sivak would play it cool. He knew that the guards only stopped and searched people who looked suspicious and Sivak had taken great efforts to look plain. He had got rid of his immaculate beard, cut his hair and had combed them back. The addition of glasses gave his face a plain look. He had chosen to wear a loose shirt, that would hide…

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Short Story for Fandango’s Friday Flashback: A Discovery in the Snow, Part III

The third installment in a series of short fiction partly inspired by Image Writing Prompt #239. Here is part one.

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For Fandango’s Friday Flashback, I’m sharing this bit of story that I originally posted on September 14, 2018. Somehow I didn’t have any posts from February 14 even though I’ve been blogging for two years.

I realize it’s been over a month since I last posted, but I hope to post more frequently beginning today. For starters, here’s the next installment of my multiple-part story “A Discovery in the Snow.” Part of the idea for this story comes from this prompt. You can read the previous installments here and here.

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The bird-boy had taken up residence in Cassandra’s room. Wrapped in an old blanket and nestled in front of the fireplace, he lay in an uneasy sleep. As the afternoon wore on, he curled more tightly into himself, until only the tip of his feathered head peeked above his wing. Henri had been banned from entering…

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Stuck

Stuck in a hole too scared to climb out

Uncertainty is scarier than the current pain

It’s familiar and in its own way comforting

And that one thought that returns

To reassure there is a another way out

It’s inevitable anyway why not surrender

The constant battle inside spilling out

Hurting everyone especially you

Not even the physical lashing out

The cruel things you tell yourself

You’re still not listening to the hurt

The wailing voice in your guts

The sounds that make everything churn

She doesn’t want to hurt you

She’s scared and maybe even angry

She’s impulsive and still acting out

You’ve been told so many time

Don’t reward it, ignore, ignore

It’s just attention seeking

Connection seeking sounds nicer

A more attractive frame

Choked with words that shouldn’t be said

Pressure has to be released somehow

It doesn’t have to feel so unsafe

Nanna

I remember you in the garden

and I grieved for you in the garden

but I left my grief there to grow.

I will pick it like a flower

and hold it close.

Let myself feel

and remember

and love

and cry.

Nutty Banana Bickies

Ingredients
5 bananas mashed
1/2 cup almond milk
3 cups of rolled oats blended (or use instant)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup almond butter
1/2 cup tahini
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup dried cranberries
nut butter or jam to serve

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160-180 degrees Celsius.
2. Mash and mix together banana, almond milk, oats, baking powder, tahini, almond butter or blend in a food processor.
3. Stir in walnuts and dried cranberries.
4. Spoon flat tablespoonfuls onto a baking tray. Makes about 24.
5. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a bit crispy .
6. Serve topped with nut butter or jam.

Note

If you want sweeter bickies just add 1/2 cup of brown sugar to the bananas at the beginning.

Chocolate Almond Cake/Brownie (Vegan, Gluten Free)

Ingredients

2 Tbsp coconut oil
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 cup brown sugar (unpacked)
1 flax egg (1 Tbsp flax meal & 1/4 cup water)
3/4 cup almond milk
1/2 cup gluten free flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup almond flour
1 cup almond meal
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup slivered almonds

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Melt coconut oil and olive oil in a medium saucepan on low heat.
• Remover from heat and add brown sugar.
• Make flax egg, beat flax meal and water together.
• Whisk together flax egg and milk then add to saucepan.
• Mix in dry ingredients except slivered almonds.
• Grease and flour tin (20cm-20cm) or line with greaseproof paper.
• Pour mixture into tin.
• Top with slivered almonds.
• Bake for 30-45 minutes depending on how moist you want them.
• Tip out of tin onto wire rack.
• Eat hot or cold.

 

 

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Writing Prompt #361:

‘You can get to fairyland through there just before sun set.’

‘Well if we’re going to try this it better be now.’

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Writing Prompt #360:

‘How far can you jump?’

‘Two and a half kilometers.’

‘Yeah right.’

‘I’ll show you.’

Writing Prompt #738

Writing Prompt #738: She stood right at the edge looking down at the plain stretching out below her.

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Writing Prompt #359:

‘You mean he lives out here?’

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Writing Prompt #737: He was excited to be there, excited to be learning all the skills he would need for his new life.

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Writing Prompt #358:

‘You’re not magic.’

‘I’ll prove it to you.’

‘What with smoke and mirrors?’

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Writing Prompt #736: She was stabbed in the back by her best friend, the person she was supposed to trust most.

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Writing Prompt #357:

‘Are you sure we need a bigger fire?’

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Writing Prompt #735: He wanted to write songs that meant something to people and inspire them to secede in life.

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Writing Prompt #356:

‘What are you reading?’

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Writing Prompt #734: She could hear someone was in the house with her but every time she went to see who it was no one was there.

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Writing Prompt #355:

‘Help.’

‘Swim idiot.’

‘I can’t swim.’

‘Too bad.’

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Writing Prompt #733: He had thousands of books about every subject imaginable and he’d read every single one of them.

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Writing Prompt #354:

‘We hold their fate in our hands.’

‘All we do is make sure the light is on.’

‘But if we didn’t there would be hundreds of ship wrecks.’

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Writing Prompt #732: She found an old music box in the back corner of the spare room of her parent’s house.

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Writing Prompt #353:

‘Follow the wind.’

‘It constantly changes.’

‘It will lead you where you need to go.’

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Writing Prompt #731: He loved the kids like they were his own so when they left him it was a devastating blow.

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Writing Prompt #352:

‘She’s growing so fast.’

‘Maybe you are having twins.’

‘I hope not.’

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Writing Prompt #730: She lost her nerve, she just could not step out on that stage and perform.

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Writing Prompt #351:

‘We’ll need a better fire if we want to cook your fish.’

‘Well go find some wood then.’

‘Why can’t you?’

‘I’m the one catching all the fish.’

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Writing Prompt #350:

‘Want another marshmallow.’

‘Sure thanks.’

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Writing Prompt #349:

‘Where are we?’

‘Home.’

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Writing Prompt #348:

‘We should see it there are eggs.’

‘I feel bad disturbing it.’

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Writing Prompt #347:

‘I think we should follow the path.’

‘It winds all over the place.’

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Writing Prompt #346:

‘One big wave and the whole island is gone.’

‘Yeah but it’s better than nothing.’

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Writing Prompt #345:

‘It’s perfect.’

‘So you’re happy to live here.’

‘Yes.’

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Writing Prompt #344:

‘Are you still dreaming of leaving?’

‘No.’

‘You better not be.’

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Writing Prompt #343:

‘There is no way we’re getting a boat down there.’

‘I know not even a canoe.’

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Writing Prompt #342:

‘Did you catch anything?’

‘Not today, except maybe a cold.’