{"id":292,"date":"2013-02-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/02\/08\/friday-flash-fiction-dinner-conversation\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:00:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-dinner-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/02\/08\/friday-flash-fiction-dinner-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: “Dinner Conversation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is part three of a five-part story.<\/p>\n

I wrote the first part<\/a> back in the summer of 2011, at the request of one of my Clarion Write-a-thon sponsors: he wanted a piece of short fiction which might persuade his girlfriend to come with him (and D and me) on JoCo Cruise Crazy II<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wrote the second part<\/a> at the request of said girlfriend, after she’d decided to go on the cruise with our whole group of friends; it was a sort of counter-surprise back to the original requestor.<\/p>\n

At that point, I had a longer story in mind, so I went ahead and finished it. It’s set in the same universe–in fact, on the same interplanetary cruise ship–as my novel-in-progress Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i>, but is a horse of an entirely different color. So to speak.<\/p>\n

The finished piece was an odd bird, with a science fictional setting but really no other genre elements, and has been rejected by multiple markets already. So now, as #JCCC3<\/a> approaches, I’ve decided to just put it out there for your enjoyment, 512 words (or fewer) at a time. You’ll see part four next week, and part five the week after that.<\/p>\n

Now here’s part three of Liz and Barrett’s adventures between Earth and Mars…<\/p>\n

Read “Dinner Conversation”<\/a> at 512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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