Queer writer of weird things
Hey y'all. Did you miss me? I know I haven't done one of these in a while, but last week my friend ’Nathan posted a Friday Flash Fiction inspired by the picture below: Which got me thinking about "The Digital Corpse," the ongoing story I'd been working on in bits and pieces as previous Friday …
I know, I know. It's Saturday, not Friday. Sue me. (Actually, please don't sue me. Anyway, moving on.) A pre-PS plug: My friend 'Nathan's YA novel, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, is available for preorder, but lucky me, I'm reading it right now and I think you should totally get it. Go on, I'll wait. …
When ’Nathan posted this picture last week for his Friday Flash Fiction piece (which you should go read), it brought to mind something I wrote about four years ago. At least, I think it was four years. My memory is not what it was. (Narrator: his memory was never good.) I wrote a half-finished draft …
One of the things I like about short stories—or any fiction, really—is imagining the lives of the characters beyond the last page. If the story continued, what would they do next? When it's my own story, I can answer that question fairly easily: write more! And that's what this bit of flash fiction is. Back …
So last Friday my friend ’Nathan posted a flash fic piece in response to the photo below. I thought it was adorable, both his story and the photo. See for yourself: And I figured I'd see if I could come up with something by today to post, and what do you know, I did. It's …
So, I deleted my Facebook account this week. Not my Facebook page, where I talk about all things writing related, but rather my personal account. The news about the social network's data (mis)management didn't make me want to trust them with any more of my personal information than I have to. But, that also means …
Continue reading "Friday Flash Fiction: A Beautiful Disguise"
For this week's installment of Friday Flash Fics, we're back to the story that I revisited most recently in the post titled An Unlikely Suspect. Anyway, the photo prompt is certainly... interesting. Granted, I don't mean "interesting" in the same way as (ahem) some other photo prompts (if you scroll through the previous posts you'll …
This week's Friday Flash Fics photo prompt reminded me of Philip and Joel from Detours: Nice, yeah? It made me wonder what happened after Joel moved to England so he and Philip could be together. Let's find out, shall we? The Seacoast Philip wakes up alone, again. The third time in a week. The first …
Again, this week's Friday Flash Fiction entry is a continuation of last week's story. And it's getting to the stage where I'll probably have to pause and figure out where it's going before I continue. This is a common occurrence in my writing process: I write for a while with no particular idea of where …
Continue reading "Friday Flash Fiction: An Unlikely Suspect"
After last week's Friday Flash Fiction, I decided that this week I wanted to write one that would continue where that story left off, more or less. I'm not gonna lie, the photo prompt made that a challenge: However, let it not be said that I don't rise to a challenge! Person of Interest “You’ve …