Hurry by Damian
Damian

Hurry by

An entry for the Flash Fiction Group’s Back of an Envelope challenge.

We needed to write the story as something urgent that had been written on an envelope, in less than 150 words.

The only reason I write on paper is if I’m going somewhere and need that message left in the real world…

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Comments

  • ChainmailChick
    ChainmailChickover 3 years ago

    Zombies, right?

  • LOL, maybe… not saying… (get out while you can…!)

    – Damian

  • mlgkats
    mlgkatsover 3 years ago

    great writing as always , and well done k, good luck my friend

  • Thanks Mel, glad you liked it :)

    – Damian

  • dirtman
    dirtmanover 3 years ago

    Lots of great teasing in this one — it’s happened before? Friendly people end up dead? Was it so sudden that the person the note is to was just away for a few hours, or has it been a longer time? Why is s/he so certain that this person has survived?

    Lots of questions make good stories! Well done.

  • Thanks dirtman :)
    All those questions and more, like who has found the envelope right now. A family member, starving survivors, or an archeologist :)

    – Damian

  • jcmontgomery
    jcmontgomeryover 3 years ago

    What is implied seems so much scarier than what is said. Sometimes I wonder if my imagination is a curse or a blessing! Great job Damian.

  • Thanks Jo! No, I agree with you, the implications are frightful! :)

    – Damian

  • ChainmailChick
    ChainmailChickover 3 years ago

    I ain’t skeered…I has katana. Let’em come to be chopped into tiny bits of zombieslaw!

  • LOL, there’s my new word for the day…zombieslaw… :)

    – Damian

  • ChainmailChick
    ChainmailChickover 3 years ago

    There ya go…people should learn a new word every day. Glad to be of assistance, lol.

  • jcmontgomery
    jcmontgomeryover 3 years ago

    Zombieslaw ????

    :shakes head into her hands

  • LOL, I wonder if it’d count in a game of Scrabble?

    – Damian

  • ChainmailChick
    ChainmailChickover 3 years ago

    I see I’m going to have to write a dictionary of my own. Hrm…sounds fun! =)

  • Haha, the Gaylanary, featuring all of those words you said while swinging a katana :)

    – Damian

  • Alison Pearce
    Alison Pearceover 3 years ago

    Fabulous Damian! A well written and intriguing snippet that’s left me wanting answers!!!

  • Thanks Alison :)
    Not the sort of note you’d want to find, I think :)

    – Damian

  • Empress
    Empressover 3 years ago

    what is served with zombieslaw?

    and why do i suspect the writer did away with those “friendly people”?

  • Served with zombieslaw? Probably a side of shotgun shells or spilt blood, LOL!

    And the writer IS one of the friendly people. He wouldn’t have taken all the good gear from the other friendly people. Nope. ;)

    – Damian