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The Definitive Flash: 50 Shades of Flash, Day 15

Fifty Words on Fifty Def­i­n­i­tions of Flash

(def­i­n­i­tions from Dictionary.com)

 

      15.  hot flash.

It is the change in the
“ani­mal” that now makes it seem like the world has become too warm. The feel­ing
comes and goes. Win­dows get opened; air con­di­tion­ers get turned up. It isn’t
the world that’s changed. Give a char­ac­ter an envi­ron­ment that feels sud­den­ly
too hot to han­dle. Make the char­ac­ter think the prob­lem exists in the world.
What would make the char­ac­ter real­ize the truth of all sto­ries, that the mon­ster
lies with­in?

 


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