Yup, it’s flash fiction time again!
As always, this is based around Laurence Simon’s weekly challenge for the 100 word-stories podcast. It’s a great exercise for writers – writing a good drabble is a lot harder than it appears, but is still a "small" task so you can get around that idea of it being too much work. And then you get a random (and often bizarre) writing prompt to shoehorn you out of writer’s block! Go read the rules for the Weekly Challenge and participate! Heck, Chris the Nuclear Kid does when he remembers to (and I can drag him away from video games)!
The player below should have the audio for this week; if it doesn’t, you can find the audio here to download. You can also read and hear the rest of the entries at the 100 Word Stories podcast site!
"That woman was very nice. You were very polite to that woman." I am talking to myself. Just to keep my social skills in practice. There are few visitors since the highway moved.
I glance out the window to the motel, to her room. "You shared supper with her. Maybe you really were… sexually interested."
"No!" I yell as I hear the woman scream down below.
"Oh God, Mother," I yell, running for the motel, "Oh God Mother, what have you done?" I step on every crevice in the sidewalk, but I know Mother will never, never, leave me alone.