January 16, 2025 8:02 am
Every evening the rat would come to my cell. Then I had an idea. It had taken time. I shared my food every evening, and watched the rat leave in the morning. One day I’d asked for a pencil, another day an elastic band, then a piece of paper. The guards had been stupid.
The little hole in the wall was the only way out of my cell and into the nearby market, maybe someone would find him; someone had to know where I was. I tied the note to the rat, watched him leave then said a prayer.
Posted by Christopher Farley
Categories: 99-word fiction, 99-words, Flash Fiction, hope, Short Fiction Stories, Writing
Tags: escape, Fiction, Flash Fiction, freedom, Hope, imprisonment, Writing
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Ingenious! I hope it worked!!!
By Sharon's Writers Tidbits on January 16, 2025 at 1:18 pm
I got out to write 99-word stories… 😂
By Christopher Farley on January 16, 2025 at 2:12 pm
Ha! Ha! Very enjoyable stories too!!!
By Sharon's Writers Tidbits on January 16, 2025 at 8:13 pm
Thank you dear. Really. 🤗
By Christopher Farley on January 16, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Waiting…
By Jacqui Murray on January 16, 2025 at 4:31 pm
It was a slow rat.
By Christopher Farley on January 16, 2025 at 4:39 pm
But–but there will be a Chapter 2 won’t there?
By Jacqui Murray on January 16, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Now this is interesting. Six days of 99-word fiction and for two of them I’ve had the question of “What happens next?” I’m not sure whether to pick up the gauntlet myself or throw it down to you… Hmmm…
By Christopher Farley on January 16, 2025 at 5:41 pm
Ha! I write novels. I wouldn’t know how to tell a story in 99 words!
By Jacqui Murray on January 16, 2025 at 10:16 pm
Here you go, my dear… 🙂
99-word fiction: Animal instinct – part II | My Words, My World
By Christopher Farley on January 23, 2025 at 7:34 am
I’m with Jacqui – what happens next? Though it’s always good to leave the reader wanting more.
By Esther Chilton on January 16, 2025 at 7:07 pm
As an exercise, squeezing an off-the-cuff story into 99 words is, let’s say, a bit of a challenge. To come up with a sequel? It’s definitely interesting. 99 words… To quote Wilson Pickett, ‘ninety-nine and a half just won’t do’.
By Christopher Farley on January 16, 2025 at 8:02 pm
99 words at a time, we could be here a while… 🙂
https://christopherfarley.net/2025/01/23/99-word-fiction-animal-instinct-part-ii/
By Christopher Farley on January 23, 2025 at 7:35 am
You didn’t disappoint!
By Esther Chilton on January 23, 2025 at 9:50 am