Ed Drury continues his winning streak as he is picked one again as the readers’ choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.
The winning entry is rewarded with a special feature here today and a place in our collection of winners which will be published as an e-book at year end.
Without further ado, here’s the winning entry:
Worst Vacation Ever
by Ed Drury
The entire purpose of this vacation was to free a particularly stubborn case of writer’s block. It had been a disaster from day one when several hours into the drive Norman realized he’d left his iPad at home.
Arriving at their first destination only to find the campground closed, the family headed on across the border to a string of breakdowns, seedy hotels, and food poisoning. Cutting their losses, Norman headed his family back across the border and stopped at the first roadside motor inn that had a vacancy.
Sitting by the pool was relaxing though. Norman felt that for the first time in several months, he could at least write a chapter except for one thing: he had no word processor. One final insult to add to the long list of misadventures that told the story of this family vacation.
It had been ages since Norman had stayed in a cheap roadside motel. He tried to remember the last time he had spent time in one. Suddenly, a dim memory from long ago crossed his mind. It was how he had started his writing career…
Norman walked back to the room and opened a drawer on the nightstand. There were three sheets of motel stationary and a pen. Front and back, that’s six pages! Norman took out the supplies and using the bible supplied by the Gideons as a desk wrote at the top of the first page, “My Week in Hell.” Then the words began to flow.
Congrats, Ed.
Congrats, Ed. Voters had a tough choice this week.
Nice work!