Series The Long Road Home» Part 14 of kimsworld’s 55 word flash fiction series, The Long Road Home… His planned worked. She was out of the cab and back under the truck in moments. He ducked under the trailer and made his way back under the cab. “You are crazy lady!” Then she held...
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Series The Long Road Home» Kimsworld gives us part 13 in her 55 word flash fiction series, The Long Road Home… Through the spray of bullets, she felt what she was looking for. “Got it!” she exclaimed. Jake knew if he didn’t do something, she would never make it out alive. He began running...
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Series The Long Road Home» The Long Road Home series continues with kimsworld’s part 12, 55 word flash fiction, entry… The phone was still ringing as she crawled under the truck. “I have to go in on this side,” she said. “That call couldn’t be THAT important.” She rolled her eyes and let out...
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Series The Long Road Home» The ongoing saga of Jake continues with kimsworld’s 55 word flash fiction series, The Long Road Home… Before he could reply she screamed, “Never mind!” The faint sound of the phone ringing caused her to take action. “I have to get back in, “ she said. “Are you nuts?”...
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Series The Long Road Home» flash fiction saga continues with part 10… As Jake neared the truck, bullets began to pierce the fiberglass body. “Holy shit!” the driver screamed, abruptly slamming on the brakes. Jake threw open the door, jerked the driver to the ground, and under the truck. The driver was mad and...
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Series The Long Road Home» The Long Road Home continues with Kim Horton’s ninth  episode of the popular flash fiction series… He ran wildly, zigzagging in and out. There was no where to hide. Then he saw it. A truck hurdling down the dusty, narrow road. He ran towards the truck. The driver of...
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The Long Road Home 55 word flash fiction series by kimsworld continues with part 8… Jake was caught in a rare moment of indecision. Should he stand still or run? Both! He threw his hands up in a gesture of surrender and hoped the bullets would stop. As the chopper began to descend the...
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Series The Long Road Home» Part seven of Kim Horton’s 55 word flash fiction series, . The heat was rising in waves from the desert sand now. He stopped for a moment to look at the mountains to his right. They, didn’t even show signs of life. Suddenly the air exploded with the sounds...
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Series The Long Road Home» Kimsworld continues her flash fiction series, The Long Road Home, with her 6th entry: He knew the answer. He started this journey on foot, and would finish it on foot. Besides, there were too many people he had to find and thank. When this journey started he did not...
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Series The Long Road Home» This is Kimsworld’s fifth entry in her series of 55word flash fiction pieces. Jake bent down picked up his jacket, and put it on. He let out a long sigh, thinking of the hot miserable day ahead. He knew he could make a call, and be on a plane...
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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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Series The long Road Home» Jake took off his jacket and folded it into a pillow, as he had done so many times before. Laying down, he was thankful for the somewhat cooler temperature of the concrete tunnel. It wasn’t long before exhaustion overtook him and he drifted off to sleep. His dreams filled...
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Series The Long Road Home» As the clouds drifted over the face of the moon, he walked. Even in darkness, the heat rose from the desert sand. His thoughts were clouded from fatigue, and his body was weak from hours of walking in the scorching heat. He found shelter in a small underpass. He...
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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 requirements for a short story (1001...
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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 upon. The story has...
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Every author who has ever written a how to book on writing has hammered home the point that the best way to learn to write is to read what other authors are writing, and that is where we're headed today in the series, Learn To Write.
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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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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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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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