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Drowning
A very, very, short, short story created for the Sarah Awards.
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Where do ideas come from?I created this story for the “Very, Very, Short, Short Stories Contest –Sarah Awards“.
It had to be between 1-3 minutes long and follow these rules:
- Dialogue – had to include the line “Do one thing for a person, and he think he owes you; do everything for a person, and he thinks you owe him.”
- Sound – had to feature the sound of cicadas whirring.
- Narrative – the action had to take place during the hottest summer on record.
I came up with this story many years ago, fascinated by two ideas: pretending to be telling a story while having something completely different in mind and
the myth of the life flashing in front of the eyes of someone who is drowning.I had the story clear in my mind but I never did anything with it, that is until I read the Sarah Awards rules and I knew immediately that they provided the perfect constraint within which to tell my story. This is how Drowning came to be.
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