At sixteen, my best friend sobbed when I told him that my family was moving out of state. I hadn’t expected such a response, and…
My very first website was a geocities page with an electric green background and blue writing, a shrine to my tween crush, Jonathan Taylor Thomas,…
Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish Lit Pub Books Softcover, 162 pages ISBN: 978-1-937662-04-2 The title of Kathy Fish’s flash fiction collection, Together…
And how many were there? The entire senior class, close to three hundred. Some administrators; a score of teachers. The football coach, six parents, one…
Sometimes I get into a rut with writing, a place where nothing feels fresh, where I can’t get past my own world and ways of seeing to consider something original. This is one of my favorite exercises for such times.
Let us begin with this: flash fiction is an excellent genre for the writer and reader. For the writer, flash provides unique techniques, opportunities for bursts of inspiration, varied markets, new methods of reading aloud their work, inventive varieties of form, a fresh way to think about words, lack of words, compression, space.
I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses Civil Coping Mechanisms Softcover, 138 pages ISBN: 978-1-937865-06-1 All but one of the 115 stories in…
Sophie Rosenblum: Tell our readers a little about yourself. What do you like to read? And Write? Peter Fontaine: I’m thirty-five, I live in Atlanta,…
He preferred to write drunk. His books were more successful when he wrote them drunk. His theory was that his drunk books were looser and…
Sophie Rosenblum: What is National Flash Fiction Day? Calum Kerr: As the name suggests, it’s a day to celebrate the tiny stories which come under…