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Please be respectful of your fellow writer/readers and keep your story to 100 words. Thank you.
Wrote a longer piece? Don’t think you can cut it back? The following excerpt from my second novel FROM SILT AND ASHES turned flash fiction was originally 308 words long. Obviously that would go way over the word limit. So, first I had to decide what I want to say in 100 words. Once I decided, I tweaked some of the sentences to fit and lost four other characters in the chapter. 😉 Naturally it’s my hope that this will whet your appetite to read the longer version, ie the book and, perhaps the trilogy. I thank you. Havah thanks you. 😀
Genre: Historical Fiction (circa 1905)
Word Count: 100
A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
A pile of torn paper remained on the floor where Rachel had been playing. Havah’s anxiety mounted. She only turned her head for a moment.
What if her blind toddler meandered out into the path of an oncoming automobile?
Kreplakh cocked her head, barked and scampered around Havah’s feet.
“You fell down on the job, you stupid mutt. Rachel! Rachel!”
Kreplakh ran to the closet and scratched at the door.
“You want in there?” Havah yanked it open and sank to her weakened knees.
There in the laundry basket, amid petticoats and linens, thumb in mouth, slept little lost Rachel.
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 