Tag: writing flash fiction
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June 15, 2008 08:44 AM EDT --
Marta Stephens (author of Silenced Cry) inspired me yesterday to play a bit with flash fiction through inspiration, after I'd written yesterday's Saturday Writing Essential piece on haiku and . . .
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May 14, 2008 05:37 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, Facts." Dr. Norman said to the team of specialists. "What do we know about this virus?
"Very little Doctor," Selma Young responded. We . . .
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July 11, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
My content on Gather, for the most part falls into one of the following categories:
Poetry
Short Stories
Novel Excerpts
Reviews
Bloggy/Op-ed Stuff
Questions I really want answers . . .
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September 19, 2008 08:46 PM EDT --
I knew it was going to be a bad day when I woke up and had two thoughts pounding inside me head; begging to come out.
Is the math test today or is it tomorrow?
It’s always “today” when you . . .
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February 12, 2007 03:16 AM EST --
The door slammed open; a door-stop bent and still vibrating, open. "It's gone, it's gone!" screamed Trevor with dilated eyes, outstretched, shaking hands and anxious . . .
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November 22, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Hopefully you're not sick of me saying this just yet, but I have new fiction up again, this time at Wigleaf . The story is titled, Those Who Lose Things , and it features (among other things) a . . .
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May 03, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
The author, reading at an Author's Tea on April 19th, 2008 in Dansville, NY
(photo courtesy of Clarence Stephens, Jr. 2008)
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This piece was first published in the Great Mysteries . . .
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February 15, 2006 06:38 PM EST --
Note: Thanks to my new friend Bonnie Ladick for the much needed assistance and help in "shaping" this article/story. You can view Bonnie's work at:
azbonjoy.gather.com . . .
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June 05, 2006 04:48 PM EDT --
My roommate finds an animal on the street and wants to have it as his pet.
"Pets are not allowed in the complex," I tell him, . . .
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October 08, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
Piggy. That's what we call the fat boy across the street in the purple house. The fat boy we make crawl on all fours without a shirt on so the lonely afternoon sun lashes his pale skin from bone white . . .
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April 29, 2008 04:18 PM EDT --
Sir! Magazine has accepted my new story 'What the Other is Thinking' for publication in its premiere issue, which is slated to appear sometime in June. Once the story is up, I'll post another . . .
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February 15, 2006 01:43 PM EST --
Gazing longingly at the majestic, snow-capped peaks out the Boeing's thick, secure window, Sydney slipped back to childhood as the plane's slipstream traced time across the sky. Baptized as an . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
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June 21, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
Sandy is an octopus and not. She was born with seven arms, and in the eyes of the cephalopod world this fact alone disqualifies her from being considered a true octopus. (After all, only males . . .
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June 28, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
"What's taking so long?"
That's me, waiting my turn in this bum human line of depressed and weary souls in this bum and godforsaken drugstore. I look back and there are ten faces, . . .
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July 24, 2007 04:28 PM EDT --
It Could Just Be Your Imagination
Perhaps there was no vacation. No island. No local girl leading you by the hand up the dark volcanic cone. No kiss at its peak. No stars so copious and . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:07 PM EDT --
Dear Charles,
We would like to accept (Unraveled) for Vestal Review. We no longer
publish all our accepted stories on the Web, but continue to publish all of them in
print. Your story will come . . .
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October 09, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The boys drove late in the night wearing the smell of beach and bonfire smoke in their clothing and hair. At a red light he shifted the car to park and stepped out and popped the trunk open and emptied . . .
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October 10, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
In the neighborhood lived a lion and an antelope and the two fell in love. They were both young and bored and thought themselves misunderstood and took comfort in the other's company. Their love, . . .
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October 11, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
The early morning now and you wake in bed and there, scrawled on the ceiling in black paint or motor oil, is a choice. Sleep all day, it reads. The words light and airy within your head. You notice the . . .
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