I was there the Easter Sunday when Moose McCloud walked into the Holy Redeemer Blessed Church of the Pentecost.  The congregation had just started the first hymn when the turbulent rumble of a motorcycle pulled into the parking lot.  The noise effectively drowned out the chorus – “My sins were washed away and my...
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Usually, they try to swat me, but this Psycho was trying to stare me down. Relatives reported that his mother was extremely tasty. Tied to that chair, she made easy pickings. A veritable feast. Norman had his mom’s eyes – but not for much longer. Another chair awaited, and those eyes would make a...
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Rising, she scanned the room. Everything appeared normal on this abnormal day. Thoughts of past happinesses flashed through her mind, but it was her angry present which now consumed her. Minutes later, she nervously shut off the engine and checked the vest, convincing herself this was right. Closing her eyes, she muttered a last...
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Little six year old Veronica was bracing herself for the storm that was about to hit. That is how she thought of the fights that her parents had, they were like human storms. The winds of anger would start to blow. The shouting was like the rolling thunder. Her father’s hand striking her mother’s...
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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