Flash Fiction Challenge - Due July 10, 2015
This piece was written on July 4, 2015 for the Six Random Titles flash fiction challenge on the terribleminds blog . We were given a link that gave the clicker 6 random titles, of which they had to choose one to write a piece of flash fiction under 1,000 words. My titles were: White Ice , The No Snake , School of Voyage , The Petals’ Slaves , The Eye of the Elves , and Eye in the Years . I decided to roll a D6 and rolled a 4— The Petals’ Slaves it was! This piece will also appear as the July 4 entry for Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction . The Petals’ Slaves The flowers of Auril are beautiful, but those sequestered in a jungle-surrounded sinkhole high in the northern ranges were the most beautiful. We worshipped them. I don’t mean in a bow-down-and-sacrifice-your-first-born kinda way. I mean we protected them from depredation, shielded the knowledge of them from the outside world, and let not a whisper of them escape the planet. These flowers were unique amongst al...