February 23: Flash Fiction Challenge

Posted on February 24, 2017 by pensitivity101

Thanks Charli! Check out this week’s prompt here:
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February 23, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a migration story. It can imagine the dusty or arctic trails of the frontiers past or look to the travel across the galaxy. What issue about modern migration bans might influence an artistic expression in a flash? Migrate where the prompt leads you.

This is a personal experience every year, which never ceases to amaze me.

23rd-febThey come in their hundreds, if not thousands.
Families, young adults, those seeking a mate, returning to the same grounds year after year by instinct.
They travel up to 200 miles a day, with a maximum speed of 35 mph, to arrive in April / May and depart in September / October.
Not for them the comforts of planes, centrally heated homes, and an endless food supply in the freezer.
I’ll be here to photograph their presence, listen to their chatter, and marvel at their sky aerobics.
We shall also have our mops and buckets ready to wash away the swallow bird poo.

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About pensitivity101

I am a retired number cruncher with a vivid imagination and wacky sense of humour which extends to short stories and poetry. I love to cook and am a bit of a dog whisperer as I get on better with them than people sometimes! We have recently lost our beloved dog Maggie who adopted us as a 7 week old pup in March 2005. We decided to have a photo put on canvas as we had for her predecessor Barney, and now have three pictures of our fur babies on the wall as we found a snapshot of my GSD so had hers done too. From 2014 to 2017 'Home' was a 41 foot narrow boat where we made strong friendships both on and off the water. We were close to nature enjoying swan and duck families for neighbours, and it was a fascinating chapter in our lives. We now reside in a small bungalow on the Lincolnshire coast where we have forged new friendships and interests.
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3 Responses to February 23: Flash Fiction Challenge

  1. Charli Mills says:
    March 1, 2017 at 7:27 am

    Oh, I learned to love the migration when I lived on Elmira Pond in north Idaho! At first I was terrible at identifying the birds and water fowl, but by year 4 I had identities and migrations down. Tree swallows were among my favorite. But the barn swallows and I battled over the two porches each year. I told them they could build anywhere but there! Thanks for sharing this memory of aerobics and poo!

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