Thread by @Rachel_Gutin

I'm officially beginning my #flashflctober thread. I'll be posting a line from each story I write in this thread. For more info on #flashfictober, check out @jcalyst's blog post: subtext.jmcoster.com/2019/09/30/fla…

For this challenge, I'm using a combination of the official #inktober prompts and some of the prompts from #AIinktober - which you can find here:

https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1178038518041309186

My first #flashfictober piece was written on 10/4, using prompts from 10/1. Here's one line:

Alec found it hard to believe that the ringing noise was coming from the skeleton in front of him, the one he was supposed to be examining, not staring at with his mouth hanging open.

A line from the flash piece I wrote on 10/5 for #flashfictober:

Travis dodged yet another swipe of the Great Bear’s paw, and tried to pull out the only weapons he had: a hammer and a handful of fairy dust.

I didn't write a flash piece on 10/6, but that was because I didn't yet know I was participating.

A line from my #Flashfictober piece for 10/7:

The body she was trapped in wasn’t made for slithering.

A line from my #Flashfictober piece for 10/8:

As he laughed, light flickered through the holes in his face and torso, as if some divine being had speared him with a fishhook, then decided he was worthless and tossed him back.

I don't have a flash piece for 10/9 because it was Yom Kippur.

A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/10:

Zac set the goose down on a nearby shelf with care, and gave its head a gentle pat. “Thanks, old friend. You can rest now,” he said.

My 10/11 #flashfictober piece got finished on 10/12. Here's a line from it:

If he didn’t find those teeth, he was a dead man for sure.

A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/12:

As the water lapped at her front claws, Aria wrapped her body around her most prized possessions: her hoard of golden buttons.

A line from my #flashfictober piece from 10/13:

What other means did he have to hold these criminal rodents responsible for their deeds?

10/14 was the first day of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday, so I wasn't able to write a story.

10/15 worked the same way as 10/14. Still a holiday. Couldn't write until after it got dark out - by which point I had the beginnings of a migraine. So no story on 10/15.

A line from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/16:

“Your gender is ‘human,’” the scarfed figure told him as he struggled to make sense of why that even mattered.

A line from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/17:

The programming hadn’t accounted for the sheep.

I attempted to write a #Flashfictober piece for 10/18, but it didn't work out. So I left that one unfinished, and I'm not going to share a quote from it. This is the first time all month that I began a story and didn't complete it, and I'm okay with leaving it unfinished.

A few lines from my #Flashfictober piece from 10/19:

Another kitten emerged from output port, fully formed, and full of playful energy.

She wasn’t supposed to bring her daughter into the lab, and this was exactly why.

10/20 was the day before yet another Jewish holiday. (Welcome to October. This is most of my month.) I was getting ready for the holiday, and also needed a break from fanfic. So I took one.

10/21 was the first day of the aforementioned Jewish holiday (which ran from sundown on the 20th to dark this evening, the 22nd), so no #Flashfictober piece for the 21st.

After a few days off, here's a line from my #Flashfictober piece from today, 10/22:

It’s hard to read a map when you’re noncorporeal, but Shea tried his best as he attempted to figure out where the hell the Spirits had sent him this time.