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Nora thinks air and smell are one. You breathe in sweet or sour, musty or moldy or wet-dog or chicken-broth scented. You breathe out your…
Kirby Johnson: You mentioned at one of your Houston readings that Sweet Land of Bigamy evolved from several shorter stories. When did you discover that the story…
Hi, my name’s Christopher, and I write a lot of prose poems. Why? Well, the short answer is: Russell Edson. The slightly less short answer is: Russell Edson, James Tate, Amy Gerstler, Richard Brautigan, and Charles Simic.
But that’s just me.
Dad bit down on his cigarette as he worked a knife between the seams, the deer’s head nodding and shaking in little fits. The strips…
Great news flash fiction writers! We’re extending the NANO Prize deadline for another five days. The new deadline will be September 5th, 2012. That’s an…
Sophie Rosenblum: You recently mentioned on Twitter that you are planning to write a piece of flash fiction for every day in August to prepare…
1. There shall be titles. Titles are everything. 2. Present tense is preferable to past tense. Because friends have told us we should live in…
School’s out for summer! But summer’s almost over. Sorry. It’s true. Many of our readers and writers are heading back to class in the coming…
Dear NANO Readers, There are just two weeks left to submit to the Fourth Annual NANO Prize. For those of you who have not yet submitted…
I read fiction for two reasons: 1.Entertainment People say life is short because it’s actually very long and full of liars. If life were short,…