Author: poetryfest

Genre: Relationships

ACID RAIN by Cathy Hammer

Embellish it, boy, embellish it again. You can’t tell the truth you’ll lie over and over just to win. Don’t forget to tie your lies up with pretty little bows to make them just a little bit easier for me to swallow.

Boys like you are like acid rain and girls like me take it over and over again. Boys like you like to hand out pain and girls like me just seem to stay.

Oh, boy, what a trip you are you make me want to run my keys down the side of your car. Oh, baby, what a day it will be when I take one last look at you and set myself free.

I don’t want to be here I just want to go. I’m so damn tired of living under a blackened rainbow. I don’t want to stand and…

Genre : philosophical

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Clarity visited by Sharda Bhakhri

It took a while and yet is imperfect.
It is clear … but there are chinks
It would be easy to lose this vision
Get it all muddy and blurred
Like breath on a mirror
But this rare ray,
Let me hang on to it …
Seize it before it vanishes and
Becomes the dust on the window pane on my existence.
She visits so infrequently , fleetingly.
It’s as though a flower bloomed
None witnessed, just the stem who bore it.
A self-acknowledgement , needing no praise , no applause but worthy
A quiet blooming in a desert, where nothing grew for a long time
Only cactus in the aridity of ignorance
And the piled up canker of all those careless words spoken by loved ones , strewn without a thought…
Loved ones.
In one swift lightning moment
The light…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story: RINSE, LATHER, REPEAT:

Get to know writer Bud Scott:

1) What is your very short story about?

The perils of time travel.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I saw this on my twitter feed and love flash fiction and thought 140 characters was intriguing.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

It’s a Wonderful Life.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

Quite a few my blog is http://4doorchickencoupe.blogspot.com/
and I have a book of flash fiction/short stories up on Smash Words https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/113276

5) What artists would you love to work with?

Hard to say, I’d love to buy the following authors a cup of coffee and sit down and talk to them: Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Neil Gaiman and others that elude me at the moment.

6) What…

Watch the 140 Character Story Story: HERO

Get to know writer Justin Boyd:

1) What is your very short story about?

A young may living a very mundane life happened upon a car accident scene (a car skidded on ice and swerved into a lake and is sinking) and saved a pregnant mother from drowning. Great acclaim and minor local celebrity ensued as a result of his heroism, briefly catapulting his life into an exciting new direction of fawning interviews, praise and backslapping from strangers, and recognition of his heroism from local businesses and politicians. The story finds him one year later after the acclaim and attention have gone away and he finds himself back to his old boring life. He misses the recognition and lauding.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I wish to be a professional writer and this is…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – BEYOND THE CONDIMENTS

Get to know writer Edward Case:

1) What is your very short story about?

It was a take on “boy meets girl.” I think we meet the most important people in our lives in the weirdest ways.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I was grocery shopping and saw one of the market’s workers trying to contain a spill of broken pickle jars. I saw how people were detouring around him with their carts and going about their business. I thought, I just missed a story here. So I made a new one and entered it.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I’m not even sure, because I’ve watched so many. So it’s probably some older movie like Blade Runner, which I’ve watched a ton.

4) How…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – TO BOLDY GO

Get to know writer Jonny Kratzel:

1) What is your very short story about?

My story is about a future where the near-cosmos have all been explored, so humanity unwisely sets its sights on the sun.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I’m a huge fan of twitter and I thought the opportunity to write an 140 character story was simply a brilliant one.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Either Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith, or Night On Earth, directed by Jim Jarmusch.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I have written three short film scripts, one of which has been performed live. I’ve also wrote a fair few short stories as well as having longer stories and scripts that are ongoing work.

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – THE BIG ONE:

Get to know writer Kevin Wilton:

1. What is your very short story about?

This is a man’s decision to discover more himself, before he dies, by discovering what’s real in his own country.

2. What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

It is the log line for a script I have written that has been put into the first person.

3. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Wow, good question, I have seen many films many times because I have kids who have the capacity to see a story play out, over and over and retain the capacity to be surprised but for the absolute most it would have to be Holes, the debut film by Shia LaBouf. It’s actually very good, even if it is a Disney.

4…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – The gentle sunset:

Get to know writer B.W. Shearer:

1) What is your very short story about?

It is about a palm tree silhouetted against a beautiful sunset.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I liked the idea of telling a story in just a few words.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Bertolucci’s 1900 and Burnt by the sun

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

I have written a few.

5) What artists would you love to work with?

Steve Martin, Woody Allen

6) What is your passion in life?

Writing

7) Any tips for other writers who want to write a 140 character short story?

Don’t think about the words, just tell an economical story, then edit.

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The 140 Character…

Watch the 140 Character Short Story – KEVIN THE LOSER:

Get to know writer Nicole Nelson:

1) What is your very short story about?

It is actually an excerpt from my feature length Romantic Comedy Kevin the Loser. The protagonist , Kevin, is a loser in life, but hopes to be a winner in love.

2)What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I was motivated to write this story to show that we all have a vulnerable side when it comes to love. I submitted this story to the contest in hopes of getting exposure and ultimately having my screenplay sold and produced.

3)What movie have you seen the most in your life?

I have seen Beaches and Five Heartbeats an equally insane amount of times.

4)How many scripts and stories have you written?

I have written a total of five feature length scripts…