I’m getting this in just under the gun this week, but here’s my “entry” in this week’s Flash Fiction Challenge from Chuck Wendig: That’s My New Band Name. My band’s name, per this site, was “Possessed Success”. Not my best work, but I’m just trying to flex my muscles again as my new job now […]
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How do you write an entire story in only three sentences? If you think that’s a tall order (or maybe even an impossible question to answer) you should re-calibrate your expectations and try writing a story in only six words. Both can be done but it takes a little planning, effort and creativity. I’m game […]
Here’s my entry in Chuck Wendig’s Irregular Creatures flash fiction challenge. I’m used to 1,024 character (1kb) fiction (read my Ficly stories that meet this constraint) so I didn’t quite fill 1,000 words, but I’m happy with what I wrote. I call it “Three”. Enjoy! Warning! Warning! Warning! The mechanical voice didn’t sound all that […]
For a long time I’ve been turning around the phrase, the exhortation, “I Was Promised A Flying Car“, in my mind. I always saw it as the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie or novel or maybe even a long-form magazine piece on all the crushed dreams of kids like me who never went to Space […]
After spending our most recent vacation with my in-laws (two of whom, my mother-in-law and brother-in-law own Kindles) I’d made up my mind that a refurbished Kindle might make a nice present, perhaps for my 33rd birthday or Christmas. Then a funny thing happened. Amazon got all “Big Brother” with two books by the George […]