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NYC Midnight<\/a> runs a series of writing competitions. They all involve writing a short piece of fiction in 48 hours. I noticed them about a year and a half ago, and this year signed up for the NYC Midnight flash fiction challenge. Participants are assigned a genre, a location, and an object and have 48 hours to write about a story with no more than 1,00o words. My mother had signed up first, and encouraged me to do so… I though, why not? I have serious issues writing an academic paper in less than 5,000 words. This would be good practice at brevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(link to the story I wrote for my second challenge: The bucket, the snake, and no pot at all<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NYC Midnight offers five different competitions<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My first flash fiction challenge: Rom Com<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Romantic comedy. I’ve never <\/em>written rom com, and I don’t even really like<\/em> rom com. My boyfriend does, though. He has made me watch many of his favorites. I am happy to watch them (though I sometimes fall asleep). (When he doesn’t poke me every time he notices me nodding off.) I don’t know how he watches them twice<\/em> though. Probably more than twice… he makes his daughter watch them too \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rom com. Location: Ice Cream Truck. Object: a dart.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The time was terrible. I was travelling home from an academic conference this summer when it was assigned. Having left the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology<\/a> in La Jolla, I drove to Riverside, where I stayed with old friends. By the time we’d finished dinner, talk, and wine, it was late, so I checked my assignment and went to bed. The next day I drove home to Springville. (Well, it’s not exactly<\/em> home now, but it is my hometown<\/a>, and I was staying with my boyfriend there. And it will<\/em> be home again next year!) Then I was busy… but it doesn’t take long to write 1,000 words. I did it Sunday morning, proofread that afternoon, and submitted long before midnight EST (9pm for me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Half a turn, give or take”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis: Livy and Ollie meet at the ice-cream truck as children. Six years later, Livy revives her childhood rituals and possibly their relationship.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Livy set the dart on top of the post, pointing towards the house,\nand then turned it slowly clockwise 195 degrees. Just over half a turn. It was\n12:55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She sighted down the dart and through the trees and then\nwalked forward, counting. She could hear the music. The Entertainer. You\u2019d\nthink they\u2019d have a new one by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

39 steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Used to be 55. Then 46.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ice-cream truck was still in the street. She stood in\nthe shade and looked around. Ollie wasn\u2019t there. Of course? Yet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy and her brother had christened the small grove of\nmulberry trees that separated their house from the \u201cice-cream street\u201d Mirkwood\neven though it was not more than thirty feet across. Livy\u2019s brother had helped\nher clear out a straight-ish path from the yard gate to the street on the other\nside of Mirkwood before he went to college. He showed her the dart trick so she\ncould cross without being caught by monsters (she still had to run, until she\nmet Ollie).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took 46 steps, the summer she met Ollie. Then she stopped\ncounting. She was thirteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So was Ollie. She told him about Mirkwood and the monsters,\nto distract him from problems she\u2019d never imagined having. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy \u2019s brother moved out when she was seven. Her parents\nwouldn\u2019t let her get a puppy. There were orcs and trolls in Mirkwood. Her best\nfriend Amy went to camp during the summer. Those were Livy \u2019s problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ollie moved into the house where the ice-cream truck\nstopped he had to change his surname\u2014and he couldn\u2019t contact his friends. Ever.\nThe last time his family had run away, it had only taken the Russians five\nmonths to find them, and it had all been Ollie\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least, that\u2019s what he told her, at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later it turned out they had moved to La Jolla for the\nsummer because Ollie\u2019s father was working on a grant at UCSD. They\u2019d be going\nback to Boston the last week of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Livy figured out he was lying, they\u2019d spent weeks\npretending to be hobbits and elves and orcs, setting traps and leaving messages\nin Mirkwood for each other, eating ice cream in the \u201cfort\u201d Livy\u2019s brother had\nbuilt for her, just pieces of plywood propped against a bush, listening to\nmusic and watching Netflix in Livy\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Livy met Ollie\u2019s sister and learned The Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had printed a picture of Ollie and stuck it to their\nplywood wall with the dart through his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He left a paper with many \ud83d\ude25\ud83d\ude4f and placed the\ndart back on the fence post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy spun the dart to face the house and decided she didn\u2019t\nlike ice-cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ollie\u2019s family came back the next summer. She refused to\ntalk to him. He took to hiding in Mirkwood and leaping out at her. As an\nincoming high school freshman, Livy thought herself too old for this\u2014but by the\nend of June (and after a groveling apology on Ollie\u2019s part) they were fast\nfriends once again. They would have been more than friends, perhaps, had either\none been a little less shy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy wasn\u2019t shy and the following summer, she didn\u2019t do camp.\nShe did Ollie instead, Livy thought spitefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, Ollie made an effort to see Livy too. Every day at\n1pm they would meet at the ice-cream truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day at 12:55 Livy would spin the dart 195\u00b0 from the\nhouse to the path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They ate ice-cream and talked, then Ollie left. Livy knew he\nwas going to Amy\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went home and spun the dart back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By August Ollie didn\u2019t show up half the time. Then on August\n8th<\/sup>, he showed up with Amy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy thought, 12 months of Amy, 3 months of Ollie, and she\ndidn\u2019t shove her ice cream in Amy\u2019s face. She shoved it in Ollie\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next year they were all 16. Amy and Ollie fell into each\nother\u2019s arms in June (Livy refused to follow that thought through), but Amy\ncould drive now and had a job in Del Mar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 4th<\/sup> of July Something Happened. Later Amy\nwould tell Livy ALL, and Livy would regret knowing, but the immediate result\nwas Ollie texting \ud83c\udfaf the next day at 12:55.\nLivy was only a few minutes late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They ate ice-cream that day and every other day that summer.\nThe fort having shrunk, they sat in the swing on Livy\u2019s front porch. She\nlistened to Ollie talk about Amy. He listened to Livy talk about her goals;\nthey would be juniors, and everything mattered<\/em> now. Livy had every class\nand successive SAT exams scheduled. Ollie just wanted to play piano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ollie held her hand, twice, in the final days before leaving\nfor Boston, reaching across the cushions on the swing to pull their hands to\nrest midway between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy spent the next summer in Costa Rica working for a\nprimatologist. Ollie spent one week in La Jolla\u2014he left a backpack (contents: two\ndarts and a USB drive with recordings of him playing piano) in their fort,\nburied under a pile of leaves\u2014before flying to Paris. That was in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They didn\u2019t see each other that year, nor had they since.\nOllie had spent his summers in New York or Paris (piano), Livy had been busy\nkeeping all her ducks in a row (Berkeley). They\u2019d texted. Never Facetimed. But\nhe\u2019d texted a week ago, today\u2019s date and \ud83c\udf66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Livy looked at her watch now, June 2019. It was 1:05. She\nleft the shade to buy an ice cream, and then walked slowly back through\nMirkwood. She didn\u2019t count the steps. The ice cream was gone by the time she\nreached the backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two darts on the fence post. Hers still pointed\ntowards the path, the new one pointed towards the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She spun hers 165\u00b0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now it was their turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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