I have to give a shout-out to Tracy at The HeSo Project. She’s been hosting Flash Fiction Friday for a while now, which she explains here. Tracy asks readers to share one sentence that she wittily crafts into a compelling short story.
I took a stab at it earlier this week, and she chose my line for this week’s Flash Fiction Friday. It all started with the Kohler Moxie shower head that we recently installed. That thing is cool – it pairs wirelessly with a Bluetooth-enabled device to play music, news, whatever, for up to seven hours. (We’d run out of hot water long before then!)
Beethoven
Earlier this week, one of the kids was using the Moxie in the shower, playing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, a reflective, moving piece. Composed in 1801, it’s thought that Beethoven wrote it for Countess Giulietta Gucciardi, his 17-year-old pupil.
It just so happens I was reading Tracy’s prompt for Flash Fiction Friday when the water was running, and it inspired my line:
“The shower water hissed down, echoing as it splashed in the tub. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata poured from the Kohler shower head, filling the bathroom with brooding tones.”
Tracy turned it into a well-done short piece that left readers wondering what happened next. Read it here.
Check out The HeSo Project when you get a chance – Tracy’s always up to something interesting!
dmswriter 
Thanks so much for the shout out! It’s interesting to hear the back story of the spark sentence. That shower head sounds awesome. Glad you enjoyed the story 🙂
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I really did! You ran with the whole “brooding” concept very well and wrote a story that left me wondering what was going to happen next. Shower head is pretty cool, too. 🙂
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