Pencil Sharpenings (FFM Day 21)

FFM Links - July 21, 2014Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day Choose Your Own Adventure.

July has got the key of the door.  But are July's best days behind?  It is all mortgages and bills and 9 to 5 and varicose veins from here on in?
You decide.
To have July succumb early to a dreary middle age, turn to page 24.
To have July run amok in an attempt to recover lost youth, turn to page 12.
To spend the rest of July writing some more awesome flash fiction, keep reading.
(There's no challenge today.  It's Monday.  Take the day off.  Your boss/teacher won't mind.)
Grab yourself a pardner for tomorrow's challenge.  Do-si-do them if you like.  That's right, the challenge for Tuesday July 22nd will be a two-player collaboration-type game.  Hang out in the chatroom or post below if you need to hook up with someone - in a purely literary way, of course.
Instructions
Flash Fiction Month is

Prompt used:
Pencil sharpenings covered the ceiling - ninquetari




A combination of different challenges over the years:

• Challenge #1 (1st July, 2011)

        A Conversation.
        Write a story entirely within quotation marks, nothing but people talking.
        Hmm? Oh, sure, snails talking would be fine.
        Yeah rocks are fine too.
        What's that? Aliens? Y-yeah. Sure. Of course. Anything, as long as it's nothing but the conversa-
        Yes. Conceptual rocks as imagined by alien snails are fine. Moving on.

• Challenge #2 (July 4th, 2011)
  

        Fantasy!
        Put on your robe and wizard hat FFMers, the challenge due tomorrow, July 5th, is to write a story in the fantasy genre!

• Challenge #3 (July 7th, 2011)
  

        55 Words!
        Cut cut cut! Everything but the essentials simply MUST GO because the challenge due tomorrow, July 7th, is to write a story               that is exactly fifty five words long! You better believe we'll be counting!