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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All it takes is one ill advised act to begin a domino effect that can tarnish a lifetime of efforts.
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Jake is no fool. He won't unravel the stray thread of the silk purse. Not all at once anyway.
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