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Prompts for 11 July 2025
Write about a new discovery
devastating recency
“have mercy on me”
A character who feels behind
Flash Fiction Highlights
Every week I will choose some (or all!) of the stories shared in the Chat to highlight in the subsequent weeks issue of Flash Fiction Friday. I’m loving all the stories coming out of this so here’s this week’s Flash Fictioneers! First timers are marked with a ✨
- All American Ghostwriter- The Cost of Coffee, Part 17
- Late Recruit
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Mercy!
I turn the volume up, way up.
Du du du du du
The guitar rumbles on until the drums start pounding. And then the voice starts, “Pretty Woman,”
I hear a loud noise behind closed doors down the hall, almost a sense of panic. The door flings open and a pair of feet stride down the hall with some urgency.
“What is that?” my teenage daughter asks with that sense of wonder in her voice.
“That is one of the greatest singers ever to sing a rock song,” I reply.
She gives me one of those deadpan looks.
“Roy Orbison. Pretty Woman. It has an interesting story behind it.’
“Shh,” she says as she points a finger at me. My daughter, a small teenage rebel, listens carefully to the whole song. “Can you play it again?” she asks. "And again," she asks for the third and fourth time.
“That is utterly brilliant,” she smiles as she starts to sing along. “How come I have never heard this before?”
“1964, oldies stations, 16 years old. Take your pick.”
She frowns and wanders off still singing loudly. “Pretty Woman…”
I am always amazed when something reaches her like this does. Good music is always good music.
“Maybe I will like Flowers once it stops being overplayed. Who knows?” I sigh.
For some reason, my July 4 FFF entry didn't get entered. https://gmdileo.substack.com/p/artifacts?utm_source=publication-search