Friday Flash Fiction: "The Kid Who Noticed Things"

This week's "story" (it's really just an opening) is a perfect example of deadlines driving creativity: if I hadn't needed to write something by Friday, I might never have dug these pieces out of the trunk and tried to make something out of them. Now I've got several different story ideas branching out from this scene. One of them will collapse into an actual, finished piece in a couple of weeks, ready for critique and eventual submission.

Read "The Kid Who Noticed Things" at 512 Words or Fewer