And now, the conclusion! Read “The Second Half of the Star-Sailor’s Tale” at 512 Words or Fewer
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Friday Flash Fiction: “The First Half of the Star-Sailor’s Tale”
Inspired by David Dubord’s literally fabulous story fragments from this week’s Someday Crits session. Read “The First Half of the Star-Sailor’s Tale” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Biological Imperatives”
What is this story about? You tell me. I just wanted to write some characters with distinctive dialogue patterns. I suppose you can tell me if I succeeded at that, too. Read “Biological Imperatives” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Monologue Therapy”
Speaking of phoning it in… I’m good at writing dialogue. Have been since high school. That’s not the problem; the problem is, I’m acutely aware of how much better I am at dialogue than at other things, like physical description…
Friday Flash Fiction: “It’s in There”
Those three words were seared into my brain long ago. Allow me to share: Anyway. If you’re a puzzler like me, you already know that pizza can contain data; I had firsthand experience with this in The Goonies Game (2003)….
Friday Flash Fiction: “H is for Horse”
This week’s story was brought to you by the motion pictures The Book of Eli and War Horse, the welcome letters for many conventions, and the titles of some books by Ray Bradbury. (Also, fun fact: searching for “jesus horse”…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Meet Brute”
Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! You know we’re going to have three of these in 2012–which is the maximum possible in one year? Crazy! Anyway, here’s a thing I wrote. Read “Meet Brute” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “A Place in Time”
Did you know that the Oscar bait Golden Globe nominated film The Land of Blood and Honey is not the first movie Angelina Jolie has directed? Her directorial debut was the 2007 documentary A Place in Time, which, as far…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Time is Not on My Side”
Better late than never, right? (He said, as he posted on Sunday the thing he should have posted on Friday. Oops. Too much holiday cheer, I guess…) Read “Time is Not on My Side” at 512 Words or Fewer
Friday Flash Fiction: “Meet Suit”
This week’s piece is a first-draft excerpt from a longer story which began with “Unanswered Questions.” The current draft of Lirrina’s speech in that story is much shorter, because she’s only a minor character. I might use a version of…