Carrot Ranch Communications March 23 Flash Fiction Challenge: In 99 words (no more, no less) write an adventure, experienced or witnessed. Explore your own ideas about what makes an adventurous spirit. Is it in the doing? Does standing witness count, and if so, how? Be adventurous!
Jane forces herself the first few steps, holding Troubles’ leash tightly. Why is she doing this? Waste of a Tuesday. She could be sitting in the overgrown backyard of her hidey-hole house, where neighbors can’t see, warm and drowsy in the sun, safe.
The sun, though. What a day to get out, get moving, feel hopeful. She wills her gaze up from the sparkling water, through the railing and up, across the locks to the mountains. Look anywhere but down. It’s a beautiful day for a walk. It’s just a bridge. A pretty bridge. Nothing to be afraid of.
99 Monkeys 
I fear for Jane. It sounds as though she is scared she will jump rather than scared of the height. I love the way it is ambiguous as to whether trouble is a dog or whether she is holding her own troubles tightly leashed. I’d love to know more.
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Jane’s story evolves and her character deepens. Her life is an adventure, yet not one she chose and she has to keep looking up. The bridge seems ominous and can be for many reasons.
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