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Prompt #36 — Write Like Bryan Owens

Owens’s piece (view here) explores the sublime, considering the emotional relays between beauty and terror and the contrast between an expansive natural world and a…

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Prompt #35 — Write Like Gene Morgan

The oft-mumbled misanthropic curse, “fucking people” is transformed beautifully in Morgan’s piece (view here). He imagines a world in which sexual intercourse overcomes people in…

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Fucking People

Two people fucking on a table, near a professional building. A person fucking near a bayou. Three really big people in a car, fucking to…

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Prompt #34 — Write Like Kendra Grant Malone

Writing a normal situation into a strange one can be a fun way to turn a story on its head. In “45 Walker Street” (view…

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45 Walker Street

As Julia approached 45 Walker Street, she thought she got the address wrong. The building had no windows and the door looked plain. She rang…

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Vacation with Graciela

You found me that first night in the bar across the plaza from Teatro Juárez. You talked. I drank wine, watched the fútbol and the…

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Prompt #33 — Write Like Lou Amyx

Amyx’s piece (view here) departs from the typical travelogue in that it focuses more on the speaker’s haphazard traveling companions than the destination. Although the…

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Prompt #32 — Write Like Jasmine Dreame Wagner

In Wagner’s story (view story here), the scientific idea of String Theory—that there is a potential set of equations that can link Newtonian and Particle…

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String Theory

There is a sky behind the sky, and when you unmake your bed at night, there is a sheet pulled taut beneath the sheet, and…

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Volume 7 Number 2 Is Almost Here, and More!

NANO Fiction 7.2 will be landing door-side in just a couple of weeks and features exciting work from Kevin Adler, Leesa Cross-Smith, Lupe Linares, Sarah…

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