Flash Fiction: Blanche and the Seven Brothers
Our Chuck Wendig challenge this week was to pick one of the Seven Deadly Sins and write a story about it--whatever sort of story we wanted. Naturally, I couldn't follow directions and picked all seven. That number just rang a few bells...not just the fairy tale, but Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, too. And the story about the 7 Chinese brothers. Clearly something had to be done. It's exactly 1000 words, including the title, though mostly that's luck. Blanche and the Seven Brothers Blanche and the Seven Brothers The girl looked around the dingy cottage and nodded. It looked right enough. Just like in the stories. She’d be all right there. Blanche had made her escape from the usual home problems. Her Pa was all right, she guessed, but Marjorie—no way was Blanche ever going to call that woman “Ma”—was a real piece of work, and Pa was too weak to stop her. Whatever went on in this cottage, it would be better than staying with her. And the cottage was really rather charming un...