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Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #FFFC

4/1/2026

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The image is from Jon Tyson.




Written for Melissa’s Flash Fiction Challenge #366. 
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Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge: Each week she posts an image off the internet and challenges bloggers to write a flash fiction piece or a poem inspired by the image. There are no style or word limits.
Drag queens reading stories
were never the threat.
Trans kids finding their names
were never the danger.

Danger wore ties,
spread lies masked as truths,
sat in politic boardrooms,
aged into entitlement,
old fragile egos,
and called it tradition, their God-given right.
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“No Kings,” the crowds chanted,
feet pounding pavement into rhythm--
no crowns, no thrones,
no men above consequence.

Just people--
messy, defiant people--
refusing silence,
refusing fear.
Just people--
unarmed,
unafraid,
refusing to disappear.

Less guns, more glitter--
because sparkle doesn’t kill,
and maybe, just maybe,
if we let it catch the light,
we’d finally see each other clearly--

and see everything for what it is. 
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Melissa Lemay link
4/1/2026 01:05:25 pm

Love where this took you, Angela! I especially love this part:
Just people--
messy, defiant people--
refusing silence,
refusing fear.

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Angela Scott
4/1/2026 02:51:31 pm

Thank you, Melissa!

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