A Writer's Pen

    Welcome back! Today, I'll be sharing with you another piece of flash fiction.      Allow me to present... Surrendering Freedom      Crazy? Perhaps I was.      Only time could tell. Dawn seemed hesitant to come that fateful morning, and the world remained in the sorrowful dark as I awaited my doom.      It had not been my choice.      They had forced me to it.      A lonesome road was my waiting place and a deer sign my only company. The tears of the sky had long since surrendered themselves to the wind and now pitter-patted on my umbrella like the footsteps of a kitten.      Footsteps.      I shook myself. My mind had wandered further than I thought, for I could have sworn that I heard…      Footsteps. There they were again. I tore my gaze from the road to look upon the intruder of my silent despair.      A deer. Nothing ...

    Hello!  I hope you that had an auspicious past two weeks and are now ready for a new feature of A Writer's Pen!     I've been toying with the idea of posting some of my own fiction work for quite some time. It was one of my primary ideas for content when I started this blog, but I never quite had the material that I was looking to post. Luckily, I recently wrote a piece and found that it was just the sort of story   that   I had been hoping for!    I wrote this flash fiction for a contest. It's always refreshing to take a breather from the normal flow of writing and explore a new style. In this story, I pursued the concept of a story being directly told by the character to the reader. Instead of the typical feel of a novel, I sought to write a story that you can feel being told in a hushed voice around the dying embers of a fire. Not quite a full story, but the beginning of an untold adventure.       It was a rewa...