The opening line of my story is originally from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Crazy Sunday”, our teacher in CW101 class instructed us to use some famous published opening lines to begin our flash fiction.
I scribbled down in my notes, read some of the lines I wrote before and tried to make sense out of it. The idea of choosing to write Pepe’s unfortunate experience came after I thought about Lemony Snicket’s “Series of Unfortunate Events.” I just wanted to create a character who’s fate is slightly similar to Boudelaire orphans.
Honestly, I am really weak in sustaining and developing characters, so I felt comfortable in writing flash fiction. My story is in a narrative form, I choose to write in a narrator’s point of view to give a clearer picture of the brief single scene I have without compromising my character’s epiphanic moment.
My CW teacher told us in class that – “unlike memoirs, flash fiction is not necessarily our story.” Thats why I really had a hard time formulating my fiction, so what I did was, I put myself in my main character’s shoes and feel for him. That is also why my main character is obviously slightly similar to me.
My main character (Pepe) is just an average teenage kid, who wants to explore the world in a not so ordinary way. He doesn’t care in what other people would say, and not afraid to face the consequences of his wrong decisions. At the end of the story, I revealed the reason of his agony. I tried to make a bang in ending my fiction, and until now I don’t know now if my style was effective.
