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Friday Flash Prompt: Bob Dylan Inspires Some (Very) Short Fiction

Bob Dylan stops by FlashFiction.Net for some inspirational photo prompts. If you'd like, try to use the associated words in the writing of your short short. Just be sure to remember that, here, a picture is worth a thousand words or less. Not a single word more.

 

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"You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free."

 

 

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Name-Change.
Figurehead.
Origin.
Pseudonym.
Dylan Thomas.



"So long honey, babe / Where I'm bound, I can't tell / Goodbye's too good a word, babe / So I'll just say fare thee well /I ain't saying you treated me unkind / You could have done better but I don't mind / You just kinda wasted my precious time / But don't think twice, it's all right."

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On One's Own.
Carefree.
Footloose.
Unfettered.
Free-Spirited.

"Ah get born, keep warm / Short pants, romance, learn to dance / Get dressed, get blessed / Try to be a success / Please her, please him, buy gifts / Don't steal, don't lift / Twenty years of schoolin / And they put you on the day shift."

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Mixin up the medicine.
Lookin for a new friend.
Girl by the whirlpool.
Maggie comes fleet foot.
The pump don't work.




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"How many roads must a man walk down...."

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Cannon Balls.
White Dove.
The Answer.
My Friend.
Tired.

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"Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb."

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