My Story at LITSNAK

I'm sharing this here, because I thought you might find HOW this story came about interesting,

I have a piece up at LITSNAK. It began life as a Flash Factory 5 to 50/55 prompt back in November. The prompt words were lavaliere, taffy, sordid, babushka, and wedge. The story I posted to the group was 55 words. I edited it quite a bit, including changing all the prompt words, but the idea for the story remained. So, I still give modertor Richard Osgood credit for planting the seed. :)

Something different happened on the way to the finalized version. Dan Tricarico (the editor) accepted my original submission but asked if I'd consider expanding it. He liked what I had but felt it a bit short, even for LITSNAK. So, I went to work. In keeping with the original intent of the prompt, I selected five words from the submitted story and wrote two additional sections using variations of the five words (wistful, mistake, scarf, wince, expression). The published version has three sections, the first 57 words, the second 67, and the third 77. The word counts just happened. They weren't planned. I'll let you decide if the result is one story in three parts, or three stories posted as one.

The Story