Sarah says:
I tend to write long. Things that I start as fun little breaks from long projects usually haul in characters (often orcs, we like orcs) and plot twists and end up being novellas. So flash fiction is a really refreshing change for me - the satisfaction of finishing something within a few days instead of months.
My first attempts came from exercises in flash at our writers' group workshops. Half of this story was written at Eastercon when I was buzzing with enthusiasm after attending the Friday Flash Fictioneers' workshop. I picked up a valuable piece of advice there about suggesting the world around the story, and that's what I'm trying to achieve here.
One last thing: it was inspired by reading the list of ingredients on a packet of processed cheese.
Liquid Smoke (100 words including title)
Liquid smoke for wood and water, the places my revenge seeks him out. A dragonfly's wing for swiftness. Steep in moonlight and the spell is done.
Liquid smoke twists in the air as rope twists. It will bind as rope binds. I was the slowest of my sisters in that dark forest flight, my breath burning, lashed by the sound of his pursuit.
Liquid smoke presses him down and forces itself in. He does not breathe but to utter my name. My love potion spreads its happy poison through his veins and I have my lifetime for vengeance.
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