Tagged: fiction

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Flash Fiction Friday!

It’s been a long time–years, actually–since I last did a Flash Fiction Friday, so I’m spraying some WD-40 on the old flash fiction cogs and giving it a try again. For those who have...

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Promise Kept

Here’s some flash fiction for you this weekend. I entered this in the Fire&Ice flash fiction contest on Friday. Follow that link if you want to check out the other entries. This is mine,...

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Unpopular Writing Tip: Keep Your Day Job

Every writer says it at some point. Actually, just about everyone in the arts–writers, musicians, actors, and so on–says it, maybe multiple times. Every day: “One day I’ll quit my day job and do...

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125 Very Short Shorts

You might remember that last year I participated in the Twitter #vss365 challenge. For the challenge, I had to write a 280-character-or-fewer story every day using a given prompt word. By December 31, I...

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New Story Published!

The kind folks at Empyreome have once again indulged me by agreeing to publish one of my stories. And today is pub day as the January, 2019 edition of Empyreome Magazine goes live! My...

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It All Adds Up

People say that about loose change, ring pull collections, and passing minutes. But until you see that candy jar full of coins, or the stuffed Ziploc bag of ring pulls, or the wrinkles in...

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Very Short Story: #Jazz

I’ve mentioned before that I’m participating in the daily #vss365 challenge on Twitter. The point of the challenge is to get writers to compose a Very Short Story every day for 365 days (vss365–geddit?)...

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Zeppelin

And so, here we are. The last day of the 2018 A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. This has been fun and exciting for me, both writing these stories, and reading your comments and suggestions. Thank you...

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A-to-Z Blogging Challenge Recap: Week 4

Only one more day to go in the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge! I’ve almost survived writing daily 100-word flash fiction. Since we don’t blog on Sundays (except for the first post of this year since...

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Yoga

Hey, wait… what? Wasn’t there another story here previously? Yes, but I didn’t like it. It was fine last night, but I woke up this morning-ish (it’s Saturday), re-read it and thought, “Come on,...