Reader Flash - Share Your Own Story

Now it’s your turn. We’d love you to share your own GOALS inspired flash fiction. Usually flash is up to 100 words, but we understand all too well how difficult it can be sometimes to stay within those limits, so how about we allow up to 200 words.

Show us your writing chops. Post anonymously if you want, but keep it PG-13 rated. A good test is to ask yourself if you would want to read it to your teenager.

Leave your story in the comments and feel free to leave encouraging comments for other flashers! 

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Return on January 27th for Stuart R. West's GOALS inspired short.

Time to Talk Goals

Since the stories all revolve around a single theme, it naturally makes you see that subject from all different viewpoints. We are raising a couple different talking topics and invite you to share your thoughts. If a thought struck you while reading a story that wasn’t raised in one of the discussion posts, please bring it up in comments. Let’s talk about the good, the bad and the ugly side of GOALS:

WHEN GOALS DISAPPOINT

Eric Price raised an interesting thought in a comment on Joan Curtis’s story. He wondered if anyone would approach this month’s topic from the view that the main character reached their goals only to find out it wasn’t what they wanted. Personally, I think of the scores of people I know who have a college degree or some sort of technical or trade certification in one field, yet are working in a different field completely. Has this happened to anyone? Was it due to a waning interest once you delved deep into the subject or was it simply because you couldn’t find work that utilized your education and training? Has anyone else achieved a goal only to realize it wasn’t a good thing to strive for or perhaps were surprised by the lackluster results upon achieving it?

January's Theme

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to our brand new blog. We hope you will find lots of entertainment here and we look forward to sharing thoughts and feelings about our blog themes, our short stories, our events, and anything else that you want to talk about with us.

I’m not crazy about the idea of New Year’s resolutions, but I can identify with setting goals.

Dictionary.com defines the word goal as:

noun

1. the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.

2. the terminal point in a race.

3. a pole, line, or other marker by which such a point is indicated.

4. an area, basket, cage, or other object or structure toward or into which players of various games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or points.

5. the act of throwing, carrying, kicking, driving, etc., a ball or puck into such an area or object.

6. the score made by this act.

Lightning Quick Reads is a themed blog and January’s theme is GOALS. As you can see, even dictionary.com agrees that the word may be interpreted differently by our LQR authors. Add in the fact that some might wrap it within a mystery, another might send it into space on a Sci Fi adventure, another may weave it in a fantasy, and one or more authors might write contemporary or non-fiction. And that is the idea behind the blog. As a reader you will get to know our authors a little more intimately because first you learn what the theme of the month is – it is likely you will define the theme on your own as soon as you read it – and then you will continually be taken by surprise on how the theme is delivered with one unique twist after another by each of our authors.

 

Heads up – make a note of YOUR interpretation, because we will ask you to share your own GOALS-oriented flash fiction later this month.

We will even be discussing goals later in the month, and hope you will have input on your best successes of achieving a goal, or share some goal related questions.

Welcome to 2015. Thanks for reading LIGHTNING QUICK READS. Enjoy the month!