This is submitted for the Memoir Writing Groups prompt, . The best meal I ever had actually was in June of 2006, and began sometime well before it was served, even before getting that emergency phone call while stretching my legs in Venore Tennessee. But, I’ll start this little tale in Venore, an area...
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Series The Long Road Home» This part four in Kim Horton’s series of 55 word fiction pieces, The Long Road Home. Panic instantly filled his body. His heart raced, his mind a whirlwind and his muscles rigid, ready for the confrontation. Accessing the situation in a matter of seconds, he realized there was no...
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Series The Long Road Home» This is part 3 of Kim Horton’s 55 word flash fiction series. Sitting on his front porch, he could smell the steaks cooking on the grill. The taste of ice cold beer excited his taste buds. The temperature alone brought a smile to his sleeping face. Suddenly, his dreams...
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“….or maybe it’s the alternator.” The ‘butinski’ continued to ramble, spewing his expertise all over Rocko and Vinnie as they tried to fix their sedan. After an hour of listening to the grating know-it-all, Rocko went to the trunk and returned with an aluminum bat. “You guys play Softball?” “Nah, just hardball.” Answered Rocko....
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As Ben broke off a piece of cheese and handed it to his friend, he asked, “Do you believe in reincarnation?” Chewing, “Anything’s possible.” “Ya think we get to keep our smarts?” “Like I said, anything is possible. What if we can?” “Because I want to be a god and come back as a...
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She called when she went home that first Christmas. His almost ex-girlfriend kicked the door in. He had a new door by the following Christmas, and regrets that went back years. He’d gotten scared, he explained. “Why?” she asked. “I meant everything I told you.” “Well, I knew that,” he said. “It’s what scared...
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I bet folks at home are sorry they called me names. Said I was stupid. Well they’ll be looking for me now. From the abandoned shack, he saw a mushroom. “Out here in the desert? Bet it’s poisonous.” He never knew how poisonous, because the blast winds knocked him and the shack 500 feet...
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Tomorrow, June 25th, 2010, our series, , leaves the world of flash fiction and takes its first step into the fronteer of short stories. What started out as a morsel will be officially a short story by this time tomorrow as we step from and blast to 1760. Just in case you have not...
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Our series, Building A Short Story, pulls into the last station on the Flash Fiction Line. That's right, our 55 word fiction piece is about to experience the fourth word count doubling since we established it as the cornerstone for a short story.
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Well here we are, week 4 of our series, Building A Short Story, and we are now sitting on 440 words. This installment will be the next to the last step before we start plunging into the official short story realm.
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Tomorrow, June 11th, 2010, our series, Building a Short Story, continues as we grow or story to 440 words. Building a Short Story is a bout a process of writing a short story by starting with a micro-fiction piece, in our case a 55 word fiction tale, and rewriting it until we have a full...
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Do we know who we are? Do we think we know who the person sitting across fro us is? What if it's all a big lie? This Flash Fiction piece explores the fun of maybe...
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Today, we are going to kickoff a new weekly series called, Learn to Write. Learn to Write is going to be a review of some of what we think are some of the best resources where knowledge about creative writing can be gained, both offline and online.
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“In national news today, federal officials investigating last week’s suicide Dr. Gerald Dean, prominent genetic researcher, say they may have a link between millions of embezzled grant dollars and Dean’s gambling addiction…”
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A flash fiction piece by Alex that brings the underworld and Hollywood together in a venue on the other side of the camera. A place we really aren't used to.
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