Language Warning The flash piece below necessarily uses hateful language in dialogue. One of the words is arguably the most taboo word in the American lexicon. If you don’t want to read such words, even within the context of dialogue, than please don’t read the flash story below Flash fiction …
The last week has been super hectic, so I’m presenting a poem instead of a 300 word flash fiction piece. Office Tower Here comes joy—the radio has the beat, slow and seductive It takes me to Sunday mornings with damp sheets, coffee and the Times abandoned for more important things, …
Flash fiction Wednesday returns today with a 300 word piece adapted from a poem I wrote long ago. For some reason, when I write flash, I tend to use second person a lot. This is first person, but addressed to “you.” One of the mysteries of my writerly psyche. Slippery …
After starting this project with a flurry of weekly posts (two!), I must pause Flash Fiction Wednesdays for a week. I have some material that I could force to fit, but the point of this exercise is two-fold: give you, my readers, something that I’ve carefully crafted for your enjoyment; …
If you’re a writer, I encourage you to start your own Flash Fiction Wednesday and share the link on Twitter with the hashtag #FFW. Send me the link and I’ll re-Tweet it to my vast army of rabid followers. As always, my micro-fiction must be between 290 and 300 words. …
Introducing a new weekly feature Flash Fiction Wednesdays Every Wednesday, I’m going to post (erm, try to post) a 300 word story. Why 300 words? When I started writing flash fiction (aka, micro-fiction), 300 words was my editor’s limit. I came to appreciate the extreme limit for the discipline it …