Fiction in a FLASH!

The kids have been working tirelessly on some amazing flash fiction pieces, that being fiction that takes place in one scene, with one or two characters, and is less than 500 words.

At first, I thought this might be a difficult task, as many students love to tell their loooong stories, with laborious details.  But to my surprise, the students not only rose to the challenge, they blew me away!

Here is a sneak preview!  We will post more throughout the week!

The Da Vinci Secret
by PurplePanda

  "What does it mean?" she said.  Amy Da Vinci is in her mother's workshop, which was passed down to her after she died.  Amy lives in Juneau, Alaska and is stuck indoors with the blizzard outside.  She is sitting on the side table, studying her ancestor's notes and drinking coffee next to the fire while the T.V. is blaring breaking news.  "I wish mom could tell me what to look at, she would have known," Amy said with despair.
  Amy gest up to look through the other boxes while the wind whips and howls.  WHen she looks under a box,there's a pitch black safe.  She drags it to the center of the room.  "How do I open this?  Maybe mom's birthday is the password."  Amy tries but fails.  "What about... Aha!"  Amy turns the lock with such speed you couldn't even see the numbers.
  Then she hears a click and the door opens a crack.  Amy swings the door open and she can't believe her eyes.  She picks up this old leathery book; she gasps.  Her heart is beating out of her chest.  "This is what she was hiding."  She grabs the book and runs to the table, and reads.  Her eyes burn as if lava was poured on them.  But she doesn't stop.  She was half way through and she couldn't stop now.
  "And for the name of the woman I am painting is..." she reads.  Amy flips the page slowly.  She's breathing heavily, palms sweating, forehead dripping, and her mouth like a desert.  Her mind wanting to know who this mystery woman is.  She closes her eyes, then opens them after she finished flipping the page.
  "It's empty!" Amy says.  She skims the book with desperation.  "No, no, no, no, no, NO!!"  Amy yells.  She sees something that catches her eye.  There were pieces of torn paper behind the last page she read.  "Someone took the pages out.  But why?" Amy said.
  Her face turned bright red.  She skims through her thoughts.  "Who did this?  Who would do such a thing?"  Then she gasps and drops the book.  "Could it be?"  She turns her head and looks toward the picture at the end of the room.  "You."
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Dream Come True
By Giggles

  I wake up by the sound of the alarm ringing so loudly my ears could fall off.  I got up as quickly as I could without my legs breaking.  My friend still in bed, I go over to her and shake her so we don't get in trouble.  She gets up with her skeleton body and lips as she does her chores.  I help her every chance I can, but I only get beaten.  I know by everyone's face with them run down and tired, a few have said they would rather die than starve to death.
  At night I look up at the hole in the roof to see the moon still standing, thinking the moon takes so much, between storms and people destroying what God had created, and thinking if the moon can take so much destruction, then I can take what has come to me a while longer.
  I stay looking at the sky with wide eyes.  I see a shooting star.  Only I have heard of these in stories, but I believe that my wish will come true because without hope, I have nothing. "I wish my friend to be better and for things to be like they used to be."  I whisper with tears coming down my face.  I closed my eyes only to hear my thoughts when I drifted away into a deep sleep.
  I wake up to the same sound every morning, nothing was any different.  I look up to see my friend already looking better, but one thing is different about her.  She had gone to do her chores when she couldn't lift the barrel, her hands going through it; even if she had the strength she still couldn't lift it.
  I look at her and start to cry, not knowing how to cry about it as if it was a happy cry, sad cry or angry cry.  The star had given me my wish, but had to take her life to give it to me.  One day I had gotten the ending wish for things to be the way it was before I had followed my friend to a place with no misery.  Light filled the room, laughter shook the halls, and forever we will be together.
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LionHeart
by Mask of Truth

  "It's just where the shopkeeper said it would be."  LionHeart looks at the note and enters the cave.  "Will I find her here?" Many thoughts go through LionHeart's mind as she wanders deeper into the cave.  She sees a refreshing light at the end of the cave that brightens the sad darkness.
  She approaches the light and finds a fountain with golden waters and silver pillars.  LionHeart stands in fascination at the fountain, and suddenly her eyes turn to look at a girl standing in the center of the fountain.  She turns around and LionHeart knows that this is the person she was looking for... herself.