Review: Flash fiction challenge
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
The author undertook a challenge to write a series of blogs as flash fiction stories. each story would consist of 10 sentences and be at least 10 words in length. To add to the challenge, each story was assigned a word and a picture. The words went alphabetically from A to Z.I felt the author took the easy way out with the words and pictures as she used them only to inspire the story and did not necessarily include them in the story itself. The stories ranged in topic from sci-fi to mystery to plain old fiction. As with any collection, some stories are better than others. Of course, the stories that appeal to one person will not appeal to someone else necessarily. I found some stories seemed forced and others incomplete. None of the stories really jumped out to me but most weren't bad either. My favorite was the H story about the woman who hoards books. (It was easy to relate to that one.)So I would call this was okay, neither great nor terrible. Worth a look, especially as a free download. It will be worth keeping an eye on Donna B. McCool. I would like to see what she can do with her full length novels.