Creative Flash Fictional Story

    Imagined Towns

    Consider the list of towns below from The Accuracy Project, which has compiled the most unusual, amusing, beautiful, humorous or bizarre place names in the United States. While some of these names are historical and no longer exist, they all are or were the names for real places.

    Choose ONE of the towns from below and use it to write a 300-500 word flash story. What does it feel like to live there? What are its landscapes, weathers, flora, fauna, and human residents? Who is desperate to leavebut cant? Who never wants to go away?

    Goose Egg, Wyoming

    Buttermilk, Arkansas

    Scrabble, West Virginia

    Cyclone, Texas

    What Cheer, Iowa

    Zigzag, Oregon

    Horse Head, Virginia

    Dogtown, California

    Devils Backbone, Connecticut

    Angel Fire, New Mexico

    Frogtown, Illinois

    Lost, Minnesota

    Money, Mississippi

    Burnt Water, Arizona

    Roach, Nevada

    Why, Arizona

    Talking Rock, Georgia

    Neversink, Pennsylvania

    Star, Oklahoma

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