SIX-SENTENCE STORY PROMPTS/ HEIDI'S SHORT STORY

 

(THE FIRST INSTALLMENT) 6-5-25

THE WORD FOR TODAY IS FUSE

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, SAID THE SIGN.

 THE MOVIE BILLBOARD HAD A USUALLY PLACED SIGN SITTING ON TOP OF THE METAL FRAME THAT HOUSED THE POSTER.

EVERYONE WAS STUNNED TO REALIZE THE SIGN WAS MEANT FOR EVERY MOVIE GOER BRAVE ENOUGH TO VIEW THIS PARTICULAR SHOW.

THE SCREENING ROOM WAS WELL LIT AFTER THE VIEWING OF THE MOVIE.

 NEVERTHELESS, THE POPPING OF A FUSE WAS HEARD, THEN THEUNUSUAL VOICES, SCREAMING HELP!

  THE ATMOSPHERE WAS BONE COLD INSIDE THE SCREEN ROOM AS EVERYONE FROZE IN THE PLACE THEY STOOD WHEN THEY SAW WHAT WAS HANGING FROM THE CEILING…
*STAY TUNED FOR NEXT THURSDAY’S SIX-SENTENCE STORY.

*STAY TUNED FOR NEXT THURSDAY’S SIX-SENTENCE STORY.

“Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
– Stephen King

This week the word is strand…6-8-25

As we stood there, frozen, our attention was drawn from what was hanging from the ceiling to the fact that everyone’s hair was falling from their head, strand by strand.

What was going on?

You could hear a pin drop at first until we all started losing our hair.

Then, question after question filled the silence of the room with the buzz of people murmuring things.

Questions like, was it something we all ate here?

Was it the popcorn?

STAY TUNED FOR NEXT WEEK…

HEIDI

“What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads… The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.” – Harlan Ellison

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