CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

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...

The terribleminds Flash Fiction Challenge for June 27, 2015 , was to randomly choose a song and use the title as the title for a story. The story didn’t have to be inspired by the song and we had 1,000 words to play with. I googled as suggested and discovered Mega Ran’s song titled Splash Woman , so I started from there. The story was started on June 29, 2015, and completed on July 2, 2015. We had until noon on July 3 to complete it. Splash Woman It was a song in 2010, but I don’t know what it was about. Suzie called it chip-hop and referred to it as nerdcore. It had a lot to do with those retro computer games she used to collect. Whatever it was, she seemed to like it, even if the only words she seemed to know were ‘Splash… splash….’. I guess I couldn’t blame her for being seduced by something that suggested water in such abundance it could be splashed about. Where we were, we didn’t have that luxury. Out there, everything got splashed back into the recycling so we coul...