Prompt #59

On this day in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received his patent for the very first typewriter. PROMPT: Write a story where a character invents something….

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Saturn by Simon Jacobs

Saturn by Simon Jacobs Spork Press Paperback, 43 pages ISBN: 978-0-9887503-4-0 Saturn is a series of 19 short narratives in which David Bowie features as…

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Five Questions with Rebecca Wadlinger

Kirby Johnson: Your two pieces, “The Enthusiast” and “The Beautiful War” appear in our most recent issue of NANO Fiction, 7.2. Both pieces touch on…

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A Brand New Reason to Love NANO!

NANO Fiction is delighted to announce that we are now in a position to pay our contributors! Starting with issue 8.1, all writers who have…

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Prompt #58 — The Last Cuts Are The Deepest

Many times a story is submitted to NANO Fiction and the editors love everything about it except for the last line or two. PROMPT Take…

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Prompt #57 — It’s not always about Flash…

Sometimes we set out to write a piece of flash fiction, but the story demands more. We may grapple with including details, character history, or…

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The Girl in the Golden Hood

Despite watching her grow from a toddler to a child to a young teenager, the wolf had never dreamed that the girl he often watched…

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Prompt #56 — Write Like Matt Bell

Writing flash doesn’t have to be like a choose your own adventure novel. You don’t have to write just one version of a story—you can…

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Pitch

He tells me I wouldn’t survive on the East Side. He tells me I wouldn’t sur­vive on the West Side. He’s talking about Detroit. I…

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Prompt #55 — Write Like James R. Tomlinson

Tomlinson tells this complex story (view here) primarily in dialog. This isn’t often successfully done, but Tomlinson pulls it off by recalling some of the speech…

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