Flash Fiction

Time feels like forever recently, thanks to exams. And I also hate to admit it but my lifestyle now seems barely human, I cram for more than 14 hours a day and I don't sleep at night either. On the first day of exams, I went to the pantry at 4am, took out this jar of brown powder, and put about three tablespoons of it into a mug and poured hot water in it. That awful concoction kept me alive long enough to finish my chemistry exam. Oh and that was the first time when I could use the phrase: Studied until I puked, because right before the exam started I went into a tiny toilet cubicle and threw up. All that caffeine in that espresso reminded me of one of my chemistry lab experiments involving caffeine extraction. Did you know that pure caffeine is a white powder that looks like drugs? But if you told that to the police officer while they're holding that zip lock bag of white powder, they probably wouldn't believe you. 

I stumbled on this website that has a really creative concept. You could write anything you wanted, but only in six sentences, six sentences in one paragraph. I've been up reading it and honestly I think some of the writers are not bad, especially the ones with a twist ending. It amazes me how much they could express in just six sentences and sometimes I really envy people who are good writers, it's like they've got a whole other world in their head, or maybe even worlds, plural. That feeling I get when I read the sixth sentences really gets to my bones in some of the good ones, a kind of sinking feeling but in a good way. But some of them are a bit too long for their own good. Sentences are too long, sometimes less is more, if you know how to put the words in the correct order.

Check it out here! Six Sentences

Oh and did I mention that the website was one of the 14th annual 101 best websites for writers in 2012 chosen by Writer's Digest. You know, it's like Reader's Digest, but for writers. I sound like a major geek now I know, but I find it really interesting okay, don't judge me.

This one's pretty funny, it's from Six Sentences wayy back in 2012.

Undone by Laura Garrison
My husband's parents were on their way, and I had burned the chicken. It was time to find out if this new oven was worth what we had paid for it. I pressed the button marked "Reverse." As I watched through the window, the black smoke disappeared while the charred skin turned golden and then pinkish-white. The carcass sprouted feathers, the head and feet grew back, and then it was shrinking so quickly that by the time I registered the bewildered expression on the downy chick's face she was no more than a brown egg balanced on the wire rack. My mother-in-law was not going to be pleased.

Well, if you think all that was boring, I hope this picture of a cat entertains you.