Crazy Day

Crazy Day

April 21, 2020 Off By Lisa

It was a Monday kind of Tuesday. 

Ellis sat on the bus with hat in his hands and briefcase on his lap as he did on any other normal Tuesday. But this Tuesday was about to get as unnormal as it possibly could. 

Ellis waited patiently for his stop. Standing silently when it was his turn, he placed his hat on his head, nodded to the driver, descended the steps, and landed squarely in a bowl of tomato soup. 

“Finally! You’ve arrived!” said a well-dressed platypus on a raft. 

“Yes.” Ellis blinked in the greenish sunlight.

“Let’s get started.”

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The Flash Fiction Challenge, hosted by lead buckaroo Charli Mills at Carrot Ranch, challenges writers to spin a tale in just 99 words.

This week’s prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about something crazy. Laugh like crazy, show the setting of stir-crazy or go off the rails on a crazy train. Have fun with the word and the situation, but go where the prompt leads!

Click on the link here to join us, read some stories and find out how to share your own.

 

Featured Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay 

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About The Author

Lisa A. Listwa is a self-employed writer with experience in education, publishing, and the martial arts. Believing there was more to life than punching someone else’s time clock and inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau, she traded her life as a high school educator for a life as a writer and hasn’t looked back. She is mother to one glorious handful of a daughter, wife to the nicest guy on the planet, and reluctant but devoted owner of three Rotten Cats. You can find her adventures and thoughts on living life deliberately here on the blog.

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