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You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,” you say. “I want to hear what you’re like in distress.”
A confession: what I write is always true. The concept of fiction has always escaped me—there are no characters here, no description of who they…
The strength of that phrase: its muscles, its weight. It suggests: flash fiction is a forever contender, serious and suspect with its uneven temper. It says just checking on this fierce thing, just shaking the cage.
What is the State of Flash Fiction?
At times it seems that flash fiction is a genre that lives on the borders of poetry and fiction and that it’s most at home on the digital screen instead of in print. Yet, here at NANO Fiction we acknowledge that the genre is more complex than how the form is presented, or what terms define it.
After the colossal loss, I strayed solo, taking stabs at fun. I slashed down idiot water park slides and wandered malls filled with carousels and lingerie and pretzels. I stood where I could stand, in spaces with decorative pillars, in places that propped my body up like a doll or a taxidermied lady.
What first drew you to NANO Fiction? I work at the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] which means I come across a lot…
What first drew you to NANO Fiction? I have been interested in NANO Fiction since the beginning, almost, in 2006. I wrote a story about…
Lots of stories are submitted here at NANO Fiction about death, but fewer stories show up about birth. PROMPT: Write a story about something being…