Tag: flash fiction
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Writing Prompt #46
Hullo fabulous folks! Grab a pen and a notebook! To celebrate the resuscitation of this blog, Prompt #46 is going to be all about rebirth, rejuvenation, and recovery. When was the last time you sat down and thought about something you overcame in life—college application statements don’t count! It’s time to do a little appreciation…
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Exciting News!
So excited to announce that my flash fiction piece “Honey Hibiscus” appears in Volume 6 of Spare Parts Lit! Please head on over to check out this awesome issue! Thank you Oak! Also… I have a piece forthcoming in Defunct Magazine soon, keep an eye out! On a less exciting note, I owe all of…
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Daily Prompt #43
Are you as excited as I am for Flash Friday? Flash is my favorite genre to write, so this is my favorite day of the week! (nothing to do with it being Friday, promise.) Today, I am anticipating Spring Break more than ever. Finals will be over, and I will step out of the in-between…
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Daily Prompt #37
It’s another Flash Friday! And an especially lovely one at that, considering it marks the end of winter term. For today, we turn back to Burroway’s Imaginative Writing for our prompt. Try This 3.2 “Imagine (remember?) that you have borrowed (“borrowed”?) a car and been involved in a fender bender. Write an explanation for the…
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Daily Prompt #25
Flash Friday! Today’s prompt is inspired by Bruce Holland Rogers’ story “Dinosaur.” Life In 750 words or less, move through the whole life of a character. This can be fiction, yourself, or someone you know. Think of it as a sort of highlights reel. What can you convey about this person and their life in…
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Review of “Flash Fiction International”
Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World is an anthology of flash fiction that has lived on my bookshelf for a number of years now. All eighty-six of these stories served as mentors for me during my initial discovery of flash nearly seven years ago now. Each story is it’s own perfect…
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Daily Prompt #11
Flash Friday is here again! One of my favorite ways to consider flash is as a snow globe—a contained, singular scene. A tiny world encased in glass. This glass border is translucent, making it so the scene in the snow globe is both entirely contained, and interacting with the world outside. Flash, to me, is…
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