For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
{This is in response to What Pegman Saw, a weekly photo prompt based on Google Maps Street View. This week we are in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia. I found a website for a clean drinking water NGO called Clear Cambodia that recounted a day in the life of a girl from the province, …
{This is in response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The job is to write 100 words inspired by the picture. The title, Zugzwang, is a chess term, defined as “the obligation to move, where any move would be bad.” I got this definition from a list of chess terms defined …
This flash fiction describes some of the sacrifices people made to obtain freedom during the Cold War. By Andrea LeDew written for What Pegman Saw.
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw. The challenge is to come up with 150 words, based on the prompt photo. For the curious, Hurricane Betsy did hit New Orleans in 1965, and had significant flooding. The rest, as they say, is fiction. Thanks for the prompt, and, as always, …
Tina and Gina, twins and besties, stopped for froyo at the mall’s elbow-bend. Both were short-listed for Homecoming Queen. Both were gown-shopping. Best grades, best teeth, best hair. Identical. Except for the mole, on Gina’s left cheek. “It’s a beauty mark,” Mom always said, kissing the sinister imperfection, which had averted a thousand mix-ups. “May …
{This is a response to a prompt by Michael Jackson at Tuesday Scribes. The task is to write 200 words, inspired by the picture. Thanks for the prompt and thanks for reading!} The home-owners association documents called it common space, but the plat showed, each lakeside home owned a tiny sliver. …
This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, to write a 150-word piece, inspired by the given locale. This time we are in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Hope you enjoy my stream-of-consciousness piece, on a ufologist, seeing where his logic takes him. All mistakes are my own. Thanks for the prompt and …
{This is in response to a photo prompt on Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task is to write a 100-word story based on the prompt. Today, this old stone building reminded me of St. Augustine, Florida, and I created this “mood” piece. The unnamed building is the St Francis Barracks, …
{This is in response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The challenge is to write a 100-word piece based on the photo. The photo, in this case, reminded me of Montessori or Charlotte Mason educational philosophies, and the story “naturally” followed. Thank you for the prompt, Rochelle, and thanks again, …
This 100-word story from 2018 depicts the interchange between a nanny and her rather troublesome charge.
{This post is in response to the challenge from What Pegman Saw to look at Google Maps at the location of the Duoro River Valley, Portugal, and come up with a 150-word piece inspired by that location. I did not find a perfect picture, but the valley is known for its port wine, so I …
{This is in response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. The task is to write 100 words, inspired by the photo. For those of you who don’t know, a “shingle” is a sign, bearing the name of a law office, and having your name on the shingle generally indicates you are a partner or …
{This is a response to Mike Jackson’s Tuesday Scribes photo prompt. We are to write 200 words and no more, inspired by the photo. Thanks for the prompt and thanks, as always, for stopping by to read!} For once! Emily rejoiced. An empty subway carriage! Backpack beside her, book open on her lap, …
{This is in response to the prompt on What Pegman Saw, in which a location on Google Maps Street View is selected, and we must write up to 150 words in response. We are now in the Basque country, an autonomous region in Spain. I used only 100 words this time. Perhaps that was …
{This is in response to a photo prompt from Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task is to write 100 words, inspired by the prompt. Photo Courtesy of Dale Rogers. Thanks for the prompt and thanks for reading about my proverbial Pearl.} “Magnificent!” Pearl whispered, resting her head on Owen’s shoulder. Above the winding …
{This is in response to a prompt from Tuesday Scribes, run by Michael Jackson. The task is to write a 100-word “fractured fairy tale”, that is, a familiar fairy tale, turned upside down and inside out. Mine plays upon “The Little Match Girl,” by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a poverty-stricken girl, trying to sell matches …
{This is in response to What Pegman Saw, a weekly prompt challenge. The task is to write 150 words about the area indicated on Google Maps street view. In this case, our destination is Bamboi, Ghana, in West Africa. But I went a little further afield, exploring Ghana, in general, and its colonial years, under …
{This is a response to a prompt on Tuesday Scribes from Mike Jackson for “hint fiction (n): A story of 25 words or fewer that suggest a larger, more complex story.” Our task is to “convey a story…be entertaining…be thought-provoking, and… invoke an emotional response.” Quite a tall order, for twenty-five words! Read more about …
{This is a response to a prompt from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers challenge. We are tasked to write 100 words, inspired by the picture. Thanks for the prompt. And thank you, everyone, who takes the time to stop by and read!} My bed is angled, to better appreciate the view. Granny’s lace trims the …
{This post is a response to a challenge by Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. We are given the mission to write a 100-word story, inspired by the prompt. Thanks again for the inspiration, Rochelle, and thank you all, for reading!} Little Mika held my hand, as we strolled past. Books. Broken furniture. Cast-off …
{This is a challenge from Tuesday Scribes, run by Mike Jackson, to write a story with nothing but dialogue. Thank you Mike for the prompt and hope you all enjoy eavesdropping!} “Look at that! All children love bubbles, don’t they!” “Of course, they do.” “Even Jason, my oldest. He’s the intellectual one. Even though …
{Sorry for all the technical difficulties, guys! I think I got everything back up and working. Here is a new link to the same short (100 word) piece, and I’m following it, below, with the longer (200 word) post I had posted separately. The internet ate the last six days of posts–only those two, thankfully–and …
This week Friday Fictioneers presents this lovely photo, to inspire a 100-word piece. Thank you to Rochelle Wisoff -Fields, for running this weekly challenge, and Carla Bicomong, for use of the picture. I strayed a little, from a literal interpretation of the photo, this time, but stuck with the paper lantern theme…For those of you …
This flash fiction piece describes the new fashion which is all the rage in Paris. By Andrea LeDew. Originally part of Tuesday Scribes prompt by Mike Jackson with picture from Pixabay
