Carrot Ranch November 2 flash fiction challenge: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story using flying monkeys as a device or phrase:
Jane’s eyes are glued to the computer screen. The library is oddly quiet tonight.
She’s ostensibly working on her research paper. Type one sentence, check one fact, return to election live updates. Add a citation, couple more sentences, tab back to the updates. She’ll have to use all the battery her phone has, back at her abandoned house, to track this all night.
So far, so good, for the address she used for voter registration. Now what she needs is a President who will address her issues.
Back to the tracking screen. Don’t make me call my flying monkeys!
This flash is a vignette from The Life and Times of Jane Doe. Fun flashes from other writers (who may be more original with the prompt than I was) can be found at the Carrot Ranch link above.
99 Monkeys 
I can relate with Jane! Good thing she didn’t have to bring ID to back up her voter registration, although she could use a paystub and one more piece of address ID. I was ready to call in the flying monkeys and I will after this election! I do not believed our system is rigged, but it does cut out the transients whether homeless, in between places or living the RV life. Great flash. Gotta go check updates!
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Aargh, a very different experience reading this with the results now in! I think the whole world is going to need those flying monkeys. I hope Jane managed to achieve something in the library.
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She got depressed. 😉
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Oh I do so hope that man surprises us all and makes some of the wrongs right!
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All we can do now is hope.
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I think I have some of Baum’s older books with those illustrations or some similar.
Maquire’s take is a tad hard to swallow for a true Baum fan. But curiosity has me reading them anyway.
I wrote a little ditty at my daily site about the election…you might enjoy:
checkmate? Name of Your Post Here
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Love the ditty! And I liked Maguire’s take under the premise that “the winners write the history books. ” It was fun to see the Wicked Witch as a freedom fighter.
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