Thank you @mariannewest for another fabulous #freewrite challenge, today's prompt is ski
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This is a stand alone freewrite, although it does follow on from "Jelly". To start at the beginning click here.
Mike was fighting a very real urge to kick Mr Jelly in the nuts, right now. He wasn't sure why the man irritated him so much.
He just did.
Clash of personalities, perhaps. He remembered the first time they had met. The Browns, who lived a few streets down, had a dry ski slope installed in their garden ("it's a long story," Jeff Brown said, when Mike asked him if he had lost his mind. "You haven't got children, have you?") and he had been invited over to the opening day. Most of the neighbourhood was there. And the local newspaper, and a television crew too.
And the police.
Apparently Jeff hadn't got the correct authorisation ("I mean, who knew installing a dry ski slope in your own garden could be so bloody complicated!"). They were here to shut the thing down.
Billious Jelly had bounced into the garden, all smiles and poor jokes, with his horrible sticky wife behind him...
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Very short stories (stories told in exactly 50 words)
“Blood Bath”
She likes a bath. Horror.
@felt.buzz/blood-bath-an-original-fictional-horror-story-in-just-fiftywords
“Dodgy Dave”
A con artist. He also drives a Dodge.
@felt.buzz/dodgy-dave-an-original-short-story-in-exactly-fiftywords-for-365daysofwriting
“Believe in Yourself”
A man in a homemade spacecraft in search of a mythical bridge
@felt.buzz/believe-in-yourself-an-original-science-fiction-story-told-in-fiftywords-for-365daysofwriting-and-fiftywords-challenge
“Love Will Defeat Hate”
Forbidden love.
@felt.buzz/love-will-defeat-hate-an-original-fictional-love-story-in-fiftywords-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge
Some more of my short stories
“Camping”
She didn’t mean to kill him. Did she?
@felt.buzz/camping-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-365daysofwritingchallenge
“The Hunt”
Sci-fi: Sam is off to bag some Uglies. Horrible pests they are…
@felt.buzz/the-hunt-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge
“The Secret”
He has a secret. It runs in the family
@felt.buzz/the-secret-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-weekendfreewrite-challenge
“Trouble”
He loves his wife. But he might have forgotten something…
@felt.buzz/trouble-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting
Some big news for me! One of my steemit stories (Reunion - told in 8 parts last month) has been selected to appear in the Isle of Write Anthology (see this post @isleofwrite/isle-of-write-fiction-publication-week-1-roundup). I am so excited to be a part of this. Please pay them a visit and check out the other stories that have been selected too. You too can be curated: so read the post and find out how!
