Category: Fiction
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,...
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...
Another Story Published!!
I’m very pleased to announce that one of my short stories, “The Council of Three,” will be included in the forthcoming anthology NORTH CAROLINA’S EMERGING WRITERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION from Z Publishing. Here’s...
The Cost of Art: Some Thoughts
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed an uptick in Tweets and articles relating the plight of the artist in the modern age. I’m using the term “artist” broadly to refer to writers, musicians,...
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?)...
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...