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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…
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…
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…
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…
This piece (view here) is amazingly short, and Huddleston leaves out just the right amount of mundane details. Many times, details about break ups or other…
In “For Tourists Such As Yourself” (view here), Morales writes about a country without drawing from cultural stereotypes. Instead, he choses to personify the country…
Hilliard’s piece (view here) takes its inspiration, and title, from the genre of tragedy, then considers how or if that genre still exists as a…
By revisiting the traditional Pinocchio story (view here), Maday embraces a pre-existing narrative and its conventions. In doing so, he gains some advantage—readers are likely…
In, “Why I Love of Angelina” (view here), Nin Andrews one-ups our obsession with a popular actress by turning her into a deity. By doing…
Here, Corbin transports the Greek gods into the modern Era, and uses them in a humorous commentary on social media. Though, she balances humor and…