Sentences with phrase «in a flash fiction story»

But if you're interested in flash fiction stories in the neighborhood of 500 words each, go check out my blog over there.

In this Flash Fiction story, a 60 - year - old hitchhiker gets hit by a car in Wichita Falls, Texas in July 1995.

Not exact matches

The best short story entered in the 48 - hour Flash Fiction Challenge will be published on our website and you'll win # 500 and a VIP pass to Sci - Fi - London

Each month, read contemporary stories by up - and - coming and established fiction authors, and classic flash - length stories from famous authors whose content is in the public.

I have also published a few single short stories as ebooks, as listed below, and my work has been included in many anthologies (see Flash Fiction page for more details).

Her flash fiction and short stories have been published in various UK and US literary magazines, including Litro, PANK, and SmokeLong Quarterly.

It is still less likely to be read, because people are mostly skimming blogs for information, but there's been growth in the «story blog» recently, so if you have flash fiction you don't intend to send to contests or journals, it's okay to put it on your blog.

Authors interested in critiques of shorter works, such as stories, essays, and flash fiction, should contact the Tucson office.

Anthologies can provide more consistency if they stick to a single theme or structure, e.g. all the stories in the National Flash Fiction Day anthologies are restricted to 500 words, and all the stories in Change the Ending (more of which in a moment) were to do with public services.

My flash - fiction geek stories, Password Incorrect and Failure Confirmed are a very narrow niche, but they were doing unexpectedly well in KOLL in December.

Both of the two short stories in the above posts are also available in the new paperback edition of Quick Change, my flash fiction collection.

Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol), a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, publishes short stories, flash fiction, novellas & prose poetry.

Talking Writing publishes short stories or flash fiction in some issues.

What I like about lyricists who are truly skilled is that they must write with clarity, brevity, and enable listeners to «fill the gaps» in emotion, atmosphere and ideas, much like the art of writing short stories, and the more recent popular flash fiction (not to mention nano fiction).

I've had two stories about libraries published this year, one in Eating My Words, the official anthology of National Flash Fiction Day, and the other in Change The Ending, which...

A collection of romantic Flash fiction stories — complete tales told in less than a thousand words.

Originally, I had some of my short stories (flash fiction and longer short stories) published in various anthologies in a more traditional way (write - > slush pile - > accept or reject - > contract - > payment - > promotion).

I've had a ton of short work published in a wide variety of print and online venues, so if you enjoy flash fiction, short stories, and essays, please check out my publications page, where you'll find links and a complete list of my credits.

For flash fiction, include no more than three stories, each no longer than 1,000 words, in one document.

The piece in question is an 800 - word short story, nay, practically a blog post-length work of flash fiction, that she sat down to write specifically for a charity auction.

It was a precocious high school freshman who introduced me to the adorable boxed set of flash fiction published by McSweeney's, One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies.

If I could get going a little earlier, I'd start looking at the flash fiction, flash memoir, and potential for longer stories in this eclectic collection I'm building.

There's not always a clear story behind my stories, particularly my flash fiction, but «Nadine's Broken Heart» began in my creative...

I began to write flash fiction, and other short stories in 2011.

«It takes a big map of the world, a pushpin stuck in place for each short short story, to appreciate the dazzling scope of Flash Fiction International.»

«Like the most diligent of cultural anthropologists, the editors of Flash Fiction International have sifted through centuries of micro art to record and then exhibit these enduring small stories, common in their humanity but culturally distinct in their presentations.

Amanda Saint had a chance to sopeak with him, and here's what Richard had to say about flash fiction: Flash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years, why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and wriflash fiction: Flash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years, why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and wriFlash fiction seems to have really taken off in the past couple of years, why do you think this very short story form has become so popular with both readers and writers?

The digital literary magazine Literary Orphans, which publishes flash fiction — in addition to reviews, interviews, short stories, and poetry — lists the estimated time it will take for a reader to read a piece.

Flash fiction is always good practice in order to determine the absolute minimum number of words to tell the story, interest the reader and move the story forward.

I'd dabbled in flash fiction, but I mainly wrote longish short stories and novels.

His fiction has been published in the following: Adelaide Literary Magazine; Bethlehem Writers» Roundtable; Freedom Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; anfiction has been published in the following: Adelaide Literary Magazine; Bethlehem Writers» Roundtable; Freedom Fiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; anFiction Journal; Full of Crow; Fiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; anFiction Magazines; Tincture; Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine; Aaduna; MacGuffin; Gothic City Press; Alfie Dog Press; Milvia Street; and more.

Using established tales, you can compress your story, and good flash fiction must be richly condensed in order to expand in a reader's mind.

I would also say flash fiction is related to poetry, but only when it comes to the economic use of the most effective words and by creating impressions in the mind of the reader, forcing the reader to «sense» the story.

Like Hitchcock's mantra that films can not exceed the holding time of the average filmgoer's bladder or Poe's insistence that the short story last not one more floor - board thudding heartbeat beyond the average reader's notion of a «sitting» (whatever that is), flash fiction has been hastily defined in terms of its least vital statistic — not what it does, or what it says, but what it looks like.

You've finished your story, which weighs in at 526 words, 26 too many for the M. M. Memorial Flash Fiction Cont...

Though many writers have helped to shape the history of flash fiction, Ernest Hemingway's first short - story collection, In Our Time, easily makes him one of the form's primary pioneers.

Another contemporary short - short story that made a successful leap from text to screen is Katharine Weber's «Sleeping» The story was originally published in Vestal Review and later republished in James Thomas and Robert Shapard's Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories.

The question of what makes the story «matter» is perhaps best described as the «dramatic imperative,» defined in Randall Brown's A Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction as «the reason for a story's existence, the why of its being, of this moment's being chosen over all the others.»

One of the things I love about reading and writing Flash fiction is that a story can turn or pirouette in one sentence from a standard narrative to something that floats off the page and impacts the r...

Flash fiction differs from other short written works in that it generally features a traditional story arc — an evocative scene that doesn't have a beginning, middle or end wouldn't qualify, which is why it's a tough medium to tackle.

The leader of the group submitted a few flash fiction stories for review back in January, which was my first exposure to that type of writing.

At its best flash fiction shouldn't stop time in a way that makes you wish you were dead, which the joke and punch - line story makes one feel; it stops time by providing a different kind of time altogether.

There's not always a clear story behind my stories, particularly my flash fiction, but «Nadine's Broken Heart» began in my creative nonfiction classroom, after an extended collaborative exercise on the lyric essay (an exercise loosely adapted from Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola's Tell It Slant).

For a long time in the United States, the only [flash fiction] tradition was a kind of one - page story published by consumer magazines like Ladies Home Journal.

The best flash fiction lingers in the mind long after the story has been read — the way of all great literary works of art.

The variety in form, from flash fiction and multiple point of view story - sequences, to fairy tale retellings and longer stories clocking in around 15 pages, helps to keep the collection dynamic and delightfully readable.

It was a precocious high school freshman who introduced me to the adorable boxed set of flash fiction published by McSweeney's, One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and...

A graduate of the MA in Writing course at NUI Galway, she has twice won the six - word story competition in The Irish Independent and her flash fiction appeared in Sin and Ad Hoc Ffiction appeared in Sin and Ad Hoc FictionFiction.

In a frenetic, Twitter - oriented world such as ours, flash fiction (stories under 1,000 words) has become increasingly more popular among writers, publishers, and readers.

The short, short story has a long and dignified history in its own right, despite the contemporary feel to flash fiction.