Words
After a few weeks of misses, The Prediction has (finally) bounced back with a prompt I want to run with. I love flash fiction in general, and I truly believe writing based on prompts will…
After a few weeks of misses, The Prediction has (finally) bounced back with a prompt I want to run with. I love flash fiction in general, and I truly believe writing based on prompts will…
As is often the case with 100-word flash fiction, this is more of a teaser than a story. From here, I could revisit what is essentially a beginning and see what happens next. Often, I…
Time for a blast from the past. (How I hate that phrase, and yet I’ve inflicted it on you. Deplorable, but kind of funny.) Late last year I gave you a 100-word flash fiction piece that revisited…
This story is (weirdly) for a friend, (kind of) by request. I was writing it with two prompts: the one included below, and one conveyed through a private conversation with my friend about a frustrating…
Sorry for this week’s lateness. Life, huh? It happens. This feels more like the outline of a story than an actual story. Really, that’s what it is. No single idea is explored enough. Add it…
This weeks flash fiction is a short 100-worder. Though I wrote it fast, I like it. It feels to me like there’s a lot more to the story, and that’s a nice feeling in something…
Everyone’s heard the idiom: “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” Most of us think it’s true. I think it’s bullshit. I have a former professor to thank for that. He called…
When I initially saw the prompt for this flash fiction piece, I honestly considered finding another. The words (‘arch’, ‘piano’ and ‘vegetate’) just seemed too loose, too disjointed, too fucking random to include in the…
Flash fiction, delivered on time this week. The prompt is from The Prediction: 100 words maximum, excluding the title, of flash fiction or poetry using all of the three words above (‘army’, ‘break’ and ‘blue’)…