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You may recall that in 2018 my friend ’Nathan did a monthly flash fiction draw. He'd assign a writing prompt with three details based on the draw of three cards: genre, setting, and object. If you wanted to participate, you wrote a flash fiction story in the chosen genre, set in the chosen place, incorporating …
Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all recovered from your hangovers, but if you haven’t, I’ll type quietly. I hope 2020 is off to a good start for you because, let’s face it, 2019 kind of sucked, didn’t it? The world is on fire (literally), people in power are evil (literally), and it feels as …
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I can't wait for this one. My friend ’Nathan Burgoine's holiday themed novella, Faux Ho Ho, comes out on Dec. 10 but is available for pre-order now. So you should totally do that! What's is about, you ask? Read on: Silas Waite doesn’t want his big-C Conservative Alberta family to know he’s barely making rent. …
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You may recall that I once said I never throw anything away when it comes to writing. Well, this is where I out myself as a big fat liar, because I've started and deleted three attempts at writing this post already. I would say I don’t know why I’ve let so much time pass between …
This week, I have another flash fiction story published at CHEAP POP. It's called "Sixty-six" and it includes a few details from my early childhood in Yuma, Arizona, Star Wars cards, and petty theft. But it's fiction, so I take things to an unreal place. Every time he took some, Darryl headed straight down to …
I've been writing more flash fiction lately, like this piece, "The Monster Under My Bed," which has just been published at Pidgeonholes. Sometimes, these stories emerge all in one go, and the process still kind of mystifies me. Other times, they start as ponderous, bloaty things that I cut down and cut down until suddenly …
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I’ve been doing a lot more writing lately. I have to credit that in part to a two-week writing challenge I did recently, 1,000 words of summer, an idea by author Jami Attenberg. The challenge: write at least a thousand words a day for two weeks. There were a couple days I fell short. Most …
I really cheat when it comes to Friday Flash Fiction, don't I? The stories are supposed to be stand-alones, and no longer than a thousand words. Mine? Never seem to be either of those. Take this one, for instance. My friend ’Nathan (I mention him a lot, but he's a good friend; he's also a …
Sometime last year I wrote a Friday Flash Fiction installment titled "The Digital Corpse." It was about a detective investigating a murder in the Upload, a virtual world similar to Star Trek's holodeck. There was a twist, though: in addition to providing a playground for the living, it also offers an eternal digital existence for …
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May is National Short Story Month, and if you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I love short stories. So, I figured I would share a few that I’ve read recently that I really enjoyed. I hope you do, too. Packing, by T. Kingfisher This flash fiction piece was published by Uncanny …