Posts Tagged ‘flash’
Weekly Round Up at Extreme Writing Now ~ July 11 2010 thru July 17 2010
This Past Week at Extreme Writing Now Flash Fiction The Long Road Home (Part 5) The Eye Of The Dragon ~ 55 Spoken Words The Long Road Home (Part 4) Looking Back At Norman The Long Road Home (Part 3) The Long Road Home (Continued) Bird on a Wire Veil of Destruction The Long [Read More]
Sudden Cure For An Irritation
“….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 [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The End
Series Building A Short Story» All good things must come to an end, and so it is for our series, Eight weeks ago, we started with a piece fully intending to create a much larger work of fiction from the micro-fiction cornerstone. Our goal was to reach the [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ The Deep End
Series Building A Short Story» We announced yesterday that this was the 6th installment in our series, Building A Short Story. Well, we were wrong, because this is actually week 7. We have come a long way since we started with our piece as a to build our short story [Read More]
Building A Short Story ~ Jumping to 220
Welcome to the third installment in our series, Building a Short Story. If you have been following along, then you know that we started to build a short story by writing a 55 word fiction piece in the post The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone, and are attempting to create a [Read More]
Cloning For Dollars ~ Flash Fiction
“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…” [Read More]
Stay ~ Flash Fiction Piece
Edgar exhausted himself on the truth, but the State saw a different truth. So he found Jesus and accepted his fate. He was served his last meal and made his final walk. He was determined not to shuffle, but to walk like a man. [Read More]
From 55 Words To 110, Our Fiction Sees Growth
Last week, we opened our series, Building a Short Story, by introducing a method of constructing a valid short piece from a micro-fiction, 55 word fiction to be exact, and rewriting by doubling the word count with each edit [Read More]
Building a Short Story ~ The Series Continues
Tomorrow, May 28th, we continue our series, Building a Short Story, by starting with a micro-fiction piece and rewriting by doubling the word count until we have a bona fide short story. [Read More]
A/S/L ~ Flash Fiction Piece
This Flash Fiction piece is all about turning the table. Pursuing the pursuers. Motives that began with revenge, but have transformed into a game of self-gratifying need. In the end, we are left with the tough choice of whether or not to root for the Just. [Read More]
The Micro-Fiction Cornerstone
Micro-Fiction is often seen as a joke, but try and satisfy all the requirements of 55 word story, for example, and then tell me it's a joke. You need characters, plot and resolution, all in 55 words exactly. [Read More]
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. [Read More]
Her Blue Ribbon and How It Happened
For what ever reason, Flash Fiction works best for me when I write it on the spur of the moment. Her Blue Ribbon is exactly the type of stuff I write best as the energy is flowing form that lucid spur. [Read More]
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... [Read More]
55 Word Fiction ~ This Masochist Loves It
I mean, let's be real, who else would find complete and utter pleasure in trying to write a complete story by using exactly 55 words, no more, no less? Could only be a pain for pleasure idiot like myself. The 55 word story was conceived by the founder of the New Times [Read More]
Stained Cloth | Flash Fiction
All it takes is one ill advised act to begin a domino effect that can tarnish a lifetime of efforts. [Read More]
The Making Of A Tyrant
Tyranny can blossom out of any crack in the sidewalk, even the sidewalk that leads up to the theater. [Read More]
The Truth Hurts
Is there one question, that when asked, should be illegal by penalty of death? [Read More]
Lucky’s Day
Sometimes revenge is sweeter than any kind of cereal, no matter if children are involved or not. [Read More]
