This week I’ve written two even shorter stories than last time, based on the Flash Fiction Challenge prompt of ‘romance’ at Carrot Ranch. Each story had to be just 99 words long (no more, no less!) and had to have a happy(ish) ending. Flash fiction romance was a really good challenge for me – I guess I’m normally more wordy and less romantic! Here are both of my stories:

1.

A garden. A girl. A lingering glance. He wakes from the dream, her face still more vivid than the shabby room which greets his eyes. All day she distracts him, so much so that he gets lost going home.

Across town a girl awakes, starts her day, the fragments of a dream about a handsome stranger still fogging her mind. Later she takes the long route home – often too hot and tired to bother but today the garden is calling her.

A garden. Two people. The glance. It’s not possible. It can’t be real. And yet somehow it is.

2.

She had donated the wrong book. The community book table allowed you to leave and take books. Emma was its biggest benefactor but this was a mistake: Persuasion, creased with love, filled with her own annotations and thoughts. She ran back but it had gone.

Days later, glancing through the new offerings, something caught her eye. Heart pounding, Emma picked up her beloved book. Thumbing through, she noticed a change: brand new annotations. She read every one and fell in love there and then.

She left the book again, with just one note added. That night the phone rang…

UPDATE: My stories are now featured in Carrot Ranch’s weekly collection, you can read them both and all the other contributors’ work here.

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