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    Posts Tagged ‘ Flash Fiction ’

    Building A Short Story ~ Swimming at Six

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    July 1, 2010
    Building A Short Story ~ Swimming at Six

    Tomorrow will bring our 6th installment in our series, , and we are swimming in the depths of the short story pool. For those of you who haven’t been following along, we started out 6 weeks ago splashing around with a piece as the cornerstone on which we are building a short story. Each...
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    Wife Comes Home From Visiting Her Mother

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    July 1, 2010
    Wife Comes Home From Visiting Her Mother

    Pots filled with decaying food adorn the stove in the tiny, once charming kitchen. Trash, clothes, and sand cover the new hard wood floor. There’s a stench coming from the corner… Ashley is afraid to look. Could there be something dead over there? Someone? If he’s not dead he would be soon. “Two days...
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    Be Careful of the New Mexico Mushrooms

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    June 28, 2010
    Be Careful of the New Mexico Mushrooms

    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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    Shrinkage? The Bliss Of Virginal Ignorance.

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    June 28, 2010
    Shrinkage? The Bliss Of Virginal Ignorance.

    Jill walked along the trail near the icy creek attempting to calm her anger.  How could Steven do that to her? Did rejecting him the night before carry over to work? As Jill rounded the corner Steven stepped out of the water naked. She laughed uncontrollably.  Even she knew that Steven would leave her...
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    Building A Short Story ~ Stepping Into a New Realm

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    June 25, 2010
    Building A Short Story ~ Stepping Into a New Realm

    Series Building A Short Story» Well, here we are at week 6 in our series, , and we are saying good-bye to flash fiction; never to bring this story back to its micro-fiction roots of the tale it started out as. A quick recap: we, and myself, wanted to get the creative juices flowing...
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    Building A Short Story ~ We Have Lift Off!

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    June 24, 2010
    Building A Short Story ~ We Have Lift Off!

    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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    Building A Short Story ~ The 880 is on schedule

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    June 18, 2010
    Building A Short Story ~ The 880 is on schedule

    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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    Building a Short Story ~ Week 5

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    June 17, 2010
    Building a Short Story ~ Week 5

    Wow, seems just like yesterday we started the Building A Short Story series with our 55 word piece, the Heart of the Hound, but it has been five weeks. The series makes its last stop in flash fiction city tomorrow, June 18th, as we take a big step from 440 to 880 words. Yup, we...
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    Building A Short Story ~ Carrie Takes It To 440

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    June 11, 2010
    Building A Short Story ~ Carrie Takes It To 440

    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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    Looking Towards 440 ~ The 220 Word Leap

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    June 10, 2010
    Looking Towards 440 ~ The 220 Word Leap

    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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    Forged Existence ~ Flash Fiction

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    June 8, 2010
    Forged Existence ~ Flash Fiction

    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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    Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220

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    June 3, 2010

    Tomorrow, Friday June 4th, our once proud and mighty 55 word fiction tale will be three weeks old and 220 words strong. In the last two weeks, we took our story from 55 words to
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    New Series ~ Building A Short Story

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    May 20, 2010

    Friday, May 21st, 2010, we will be kicking off a new series here at Extreme Writing Now. The series, Building A Short Story, will explore the process of taking a piece of Micro-Fiction, in this case a 55 word fiction tale, and creating a fully functional short story
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    The Making of A Tyrant

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    May 19, 2010
    The Making of A Tyrant

    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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    Andy’s Switch Blade

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    April 20, 2010
    Andy’s Switch Blade

    This piece was written as a companion piece to Switch Blade, published by Carrie White at tumblr. I was inspired to write this parallel of her engaging tale of a loving housewife's unusual discovery...
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    Stained Cloth | Flash Fiction

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    October 23, 2009
    Stained Cloth | Flash Fiction

    All it takes is one ill advised act to begin a domino effect that can tarnish a lifetime of efforts.
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    Nibbling At Fortune And Fame

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    October 16, 2009
    Nibbling At Fortune And Fame

    Jake is no fool. He won't unravel the stray thread of the silk purse. Not all at once anyway.
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