I’ve discovered the most wonderful drug. You must have heard of it. Books, literature, the written word? One taste of “prose” and you’ll be gone for hours, maybe even days, only coming out of your stupor with drool running down your face and a jolt of lucid awareness that’ll have you asking for more. Should … More Satire Post: Warning, Books are Drugs!
Welcome to Camelot, and congratulations! Being hired as Merlin’s squire is an honorable and well-paid role, and no duty to our king’s wizard is too small, but you wouldn’t have been hired if Merlin thought you wouldn’t fall for at least one of his tricks! Bravery and stupidity have a very fine line. We’re here to help. … More Merlin’s House Rules: A Squire’s All-Essentials Guide to Survival: Humor Flash Fiction
So, apparently your iMac keeps a journal and is very unhappy about snipe bidding. That’s why he shares his woes with the printer. And you thought it jammed by accident, ha! Silly humans. … More iMac Journal Entry 87: Flash Fiction
I’m still chugging away submitting flash and short stories to magazines and I’ve noticed I’ve gotten into a realm of more personal rejection, a small handful of acceptances, but also that nifty 20/20 hindsight, which I can now tongue-in-cheek share with you! My first few months of flash stories were landing me in the form-rejection pile for … More 10 Amateur Mistakes to Avoid When Submitting Flash Fiction to Literary Magazines
Territory Humanities (T.H.) here, and we interrupt this regular programming to announce there is a killer in our midst, folks. That’s right, a deadly, unstoppable epidemic! Rumors mislabeled the affliction as a bio-weapon from rival countries. However, it’s become apparent this killer does not discriminate and targets victims on a global scale. No one is … More An Urgent Announcement – Parody Fiction Flash
Emily lounged in her favorite spot in the world, a garden filled to the brim with tulips, roses, lilies, and lilacs all surrounding an ancient stone bench with the perfect vantage point of her mom’s sea of flowers. Emily had never realized what the garden had been missing until Dad had planted secret tufts … More The Butterfly Garden – Fantasy Flash
The brown-speckled finch rose and fell on the blasting polar wind, not stopping his lurches or dives for anything that beckoned from below. My influence already showed in the way his frantic flight passed by a pond with a chipped out fishing hole, blessedly fluid water that would have soothed his parched throat. And next, … More The Brown-Speckled Finch : Fantasy Flash
The crying woman in the crystal throne is the fourth wonder of the universe. You absolutely must visit her at least once, even before you consider the andromeda galaxy, the temporal shift at the edge of space and time, or the super-massive blackhole down past my bio-uncle’s planet. They even say… if you listen closely, you can hear voices of the past inside her head. Leagues of scientists have studied the relic to uncover her mystery. They say anyone who can will learn the secret of the universe. … More Fourth Wonder of the Universe – Sci Fi Flash
Wrinkling my nose, I crossed my arms and watched my nephew lick the dirt from his firetruck. “Just take him to the park, okay? Is that so difficult?” Leslie asked. “He seems to be getting enough of nature in your garden.” I matched her smoldering gaze. “Do you really need to go to that meeting?” … More Godless – Spiritual Flash
This week started out with yet another rejection to a literary journal. By now, I’ve grown accostomed to it and hardly felt the sting. And what was also a “light at the end of the tunnel” was the fact that this was a personal rejection. A personal rejection marks a place in a writer’s career where … More That Feeling of the First Acceptance to a Literary Journal
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A.J. Flowers 