A Story A Day In May update #2

Day 14 of Story A Day in May. Simon is still finding it very rewarding.

Yes, my commitment to write some sort of story every day this month continues. This is all, I hasten to add, over and above my normal novel writing activities. What I like about it is the incentive it provides to get down a story - any story - each day. It's a chance to fly off at a tangent and be creative, see what comes to mind, go somewhere new. Sometimes that can get lost if you're working on Chapter X of a novel. I think, after May is over, I'll continue to do something similar, even if it's just to brainstorm a few ideas each day.

Anyway, here's this week's tally :

1. Judgement Day - Flash Fiction
2. Quadruplets - Twitter Fiction
3. Lucky Numbers - Short Story
4. The Rebellion - Short Story
5. iRobot - Twitter Fiction
6. Rescued - Flash Fiction
7. The Last Shot of the War - Flash Fiction

Some of them are still pretty rough : ideas I may run with later on. A couple I've polished up and may well submit to magazines. But, to give you a taste, here's Quadruplets. Again, being Twitter fiction, it's 140 characters long (actually slightly fewer in this case) :

‘Is there a heartbeat?’ Lines swirled on the ultrasound screen. The nurse pressed the cold sensor to her belly. ‘Actually, I can see four.’