Flash Fiction: Logging In

by Chris McGinty

He needed to post his fiction for the day from his phone. He still needed to write it too, but logging in would at least motivate him to start. It would be no problem, of course. He’d signed into the blog from his phone many times and he’d written really bad fiction in way less time than what he had tonight.

He went to the website. It appeared that there were changes to the front page. That’s cool. You gotta change things up sometimes to attract… where was the log in?

He clicked around. Surely, it had just been so long since he logged in that he couldn’t remember where he logged in at. So he kept clicking. And he kept finding nothing.

He looked at the time. There was still plenty of time to write the story, but it was too late to call Anakin… um, the admin. What was it possible to do here?

Normally, one would just search login page for a website, but the main page always had a link to the login page, which was really the WordPress login. He tried searching the website and login and hoped. What he got was the members list for the website. That’s a lot of members? Was it for this website specifically? And if so, was it mostly bot accounts or were there people really reading this? Maybe he should write better stories. He would have to worry about that later.

There was a login link and at the very least he got signed in to WordPress. From there it was just a question of clicking a link or two until he saw the dashboard icon. He managed to sign in.

Now all he had to do was write the story. But what would he write…?

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