February has been a writing experiment. If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know I’ve been trying my hand at flash fiction (500-1000 words). So, if you are part of blog groups that share flash fiction or if you write some yourself or have anything to do with flash fiction at all, do give me a shout. I’d love to read your work and link mine as well.
Meanwhile, a cherita (which is also a storytelling form):
morning crossword
every face on the train
a clue
every story
expecting
an empty white square
THOUGHT PURGE 
I had never heard of this form of flash fiction! Thanks for sharing it, and inspiring another dabbler at flash fiction to try their hand at it.
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Thank you 🙂
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Wonderful, Rajani. I have to give this form a try.
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Thanks so much, Sara
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Beautiful writing Rajani. I do have lots of 100 words flash fiction on my blog, I wrote these when I joined the Friday Fictioneers where we meet on Fridays to share our 100 words. Somehow I just fizzled myself out from there. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Celestine. I will go over and read them! And I’d love if you could read my first attempts – I’ve posted 4 so far!!
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Yes, I wonder about the stories those faces can tell.
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Indeed. Thank you, Susie 🙂
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A clever write. I guess we all have pages to fill and tend to fill little white squares of what we surmise of others, as we people watch.
Anna :o]
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So true.. thanks so much, Anna.
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Love the cherita….so simple, yet intricately done.
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Thank you, Vivian!
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Ooh, nice metaphor from a fellow crossword-lover!
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Thank you!! Don’t do crosswords much these days but was addicted to the newspaper cryptic back then!
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Everyone deserves a space, but puzzles are rarely so inclusive. Cross words, however, find us all.
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They do, don’t they!!! Thanks so much, Susan!
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Oh, you take me back to my long-ago morning commutes. (I still do crosswords, but in my armchair at home.)
And/or every empty white square inviting a story?
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Yes, though only some will fit and therefore the others become the real story 🙂 🙂
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Excellent thoughts on faces. Enjoyed that. I’ve written a few (hundreds) flash fiction pieces myself.
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Thanks for letting me know… I will stop by to read them all!! 🙂
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Love this! Such a stunning cherita, Rajani! 💝
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Thank you, Sanaa.
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Any time I am in a crowd I’m reminded of the lead-in lines of an old TV show … “There are a million stories in rhe Naked City” ….
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That is so interesting.. we are very used to crowds here, they are no longer a plural entity… just background…you learn to just pick out the individuals and relate to them ignoring all else!!! Thanks so much, Beverly.
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Word Search
We are a crossword puzzle
When I go down
you go across
but we meet at some point
to make sense of each other
Every word counts
Every blank space
is a mirror to see
ourselves better
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Oh I love that the blank spaces are mirrors to see ourselves better! Thank you, Colleen for the poetry response!
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Wonderful response, Colleen! I wonder if these could appear somewhere as companion pieces? (Somewhere besides here, I mean.)
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Sigh!! 🙂
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I love this. I am always wondering about the stories behind peoples’ faces – everyone has such an amazing one.
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Thank you, Sherry. 🙂
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