Lissa Bilyk

Seven Deadly Sins Flash Fiction Challenge: Day Five: Wrath

7 deadly sins wrath Lady Antimony is hosting a week-long Seven Deadly Sins flash fiction challenge. It started on 07/07.

The premise of the challenge is as follows:
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Flash Fictions up to 100 words
Starting 7/7

Today is Wrath. Hatred and anger.

Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath

Like Tinker Bell, six year old Belinda only had room in her heart for one emotion at a time. So when her parents sent her to her room without dessert because she did not eat all of her vegetables, she wrought destruction on her belongings.

She yanked at her curtains until they fluttered to the ground. She smashed her mirror and threw all her books on the floor. She stomped on her dolls and threw her collection of boxes at the walls. She screamed in rage.

Her parents were furious. She would not get dessert for a very long time.

Seven Deadly Sins Flash Fiction Challenge: Day Four: Lust

7 deadly sins Lust Lady Antimony is hosting a week-long Seven Deadly Sins flash fiction challenge. It started on 07/07.

The premise of the challenge is as follows:
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Flash Fictions up to 100 words
Starting 7/7

Today is Lust. Excessive desire or thoughts of a sexual nature.

Seven Deadly Sins: Lust

Off-white, stained sheets rumpled and creased over his naked body. The smell of sin lay heavy in the rented room. The cheap hotel and his credit card bill were the only witnesses to their illegitimate passion. He snored lightly as she finally found her underwear and yanked it back on. She searched for her shoes next – she had kicked them off, and now couldn’t remember where they lay.

He grunted and rolled over as she found the heels, slipped them on.

She picked up the money left on the nightstand, and slunk out the door into the cold night air.

Seven Deadly Sins Flash Fiction Challenge: Day Three: Gluttony

7 deadly sins gluttony Lady Antimony is hosting a week-long Seven Deadly Sins flash fiction challenge. It started on 07/07.

The premise of the challenge is as follows:
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Flash Fictions up to 100 words
Starting 7/7

Today is Gluttony. Over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.

Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

One of them had to be taken away in an ambulance. She heard the next day they had to pump his stomach to get all the toxins out. She was too busy holding her friend’s hair back from her face as she puked in the loo to notice the lights flashing and sirens wailing.

Another boy had to have four stitches below his eye. He had gotten into a disagreement with a less drunk boy who had smashed a bottle in his face.

Her friend threw up on her shoes. Gross.

“I will never drink again,” she thought to herself.

Seven Deadly Sins Flash Fiction Challenge: Day Two: Envy

7 deadly sins Envy Lady Antimony is hosting a week-long Seven Deadly Sins flash fiction challenge. It started yesterday.

The premise of the challenge is as follows:
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Flash Fictions up to 100 words
Starting 7/7

Today is Envy. Sorrow for another’s good.

Seven Deadly Sins: Envy

“If I had been in the same situation, I would have done the same thing. Why does he get a bravery award? It wasn’t terrifically dangerous, wading into deep water to get that kid’s hat. It’s so stupid.”

“I dunno, mate.”

“It doesn’t make any sense. It could have been anyone. It could have been me. I could be standing on that stage right now, shaking hands with the mayor. But instead, some brat gets some award for doing something not even dangerous.”

“It was deep water known to have a rip tide.”

“But still. It could have been me.”

Seven Deadly Sins Flash Fiction Challenge: Day One: Vanity

Lady Antimony is hosting a Seven Deadly Sins flash fiction challenge starting today and lasting for a week.

The premise of the challenge is as follows:
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Flash Fictions up to 100 words
Starting 7/7

Today is Vanity. An excessive love of self.

This is based on an old story I once read, but I cannot remember where I read it. I do not claim responsibility for the basis of this idea, although I did make it my own.

Seven Deadly Sins: Vanity

Once upon a time, the vainest woman in the village was given a magical mirror by an enchantress that enhanced her beauty so much, she became enraged and jealous at her own reflection.

Day after day, she would gaze at herself, and when her husband begged her to come away, she would shout at him, accusing him of wanting the beautiful reflection for himself.

She wished so hard that she could be just like her reflection.

One day she got her wish.

She was incredibly beautiful, but she was as cold and unfeeling as the glass of the mirror itself.