The Three Words Project: Short Stories Inspired By Readers

Banana. Elephantine. Kendama. -- What kind of worlds can be created from just three words? In the summer of 2014, I asked the readers of my email newsletter to send me just three words, which I would use to inspire flash fiction pieces I'd write on the spot. The project ended up a lot more popular than I expected, with dozens of word sets coming in both that summer and the following winter. The words ranged from fedora to susurrus, from explosion to widdershins, and I was inspired to write flash fiction stories just as diverse in content. From a time traveler stuck on hold while being chased by a dinosaur, to family inheritance dispute, a magician's quarrel to a private investigator on New Mars, not to mention a haunted bone garden and a Viking coming of age story, these stories run the gamut of time and space in bite-sized pieces. Each comes labeled with the three words that inspired it, both as a tribute to the original reader and as a fun glimpse into the mind of a writer at play.

• | Author: Alex C. Hughes
• | Publisher: Alexandra Hughes Llc
• | Publication Date: Nov 24, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 62 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0991642988
• | ISBN-13: 9780991642984