@JordanDane
In my short story anthology – Sex, Death, and Moist Towelettes – I wrote a story using the inspiration of a British man wearing a top hat, dressed in a tux with a slight wince and beads of sweat on his upper lip. On Her Special Day became his story. Something in that man’s face stopped me and made me look closer. I found a whole life and family in his eyes and now that story is in a book.
So today’s flash fiction will feature faces that stopped me. Pick one and write a short story of your own. Who knows what ideas it will spawn? Even if you’re not a writer, we are all drawn to the emotion in other’s. It’s one of the solid reasons we read books and get yanked into a novel. We all have a natural storyteller waiting to come out. Please share yours, even if it’s only to tell us that one of these guys looks like your Uncle Mort.
I own these images and acquired the right by purchasing them for my book trailers, website, or for promo reasons.
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What do you think? Do these people know each other? Are any of them related? Could they all end up in a story? Inquiring minds want to know.
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A favor. I screwed up my whole life for doing a friend a solid by delivering a birthday present to his buddy in Juarez. In Mexico, I was a mule for a drug cartel. Anywhere else in the world, I'd be considered a complete jackass.
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My real name doesn't matter. It never has...to anyone. Online I'm GamerGurl. Inside the game I rule. I can be anyone, become anything. People know me. GamerGurl is somebody in here. It's why I stay.
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I'm in love with an avatar. Her name is GamerGurl. She's fearless and her K/ D ratio is off the hook brutal. She's saved my ass more than I should admit. Maybe she has a thing for me too. I don't know. We never talk about that stuff. Guess we both just like how things are, keeping it real. You know?
Great images, Jordan!
Thanks, Michelle. I'm using photos as inspiration for some of my characters in a proposal I'm working on. I use images more and more to world build. Love it.
Have a good weekend, my friend.
Great faces!
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You only think I'm drinking my life away. This bottle isn't my crutch, it's my immortality. The name's Ponce de Leon. That's all you need to know.
OH, and before I forget, GREAT POST, JD!!!
Ha! Nice one, Anita. I like Ponce's attitude.
And thanks, Carol. I used these faces in book trailers mostly.
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