Get all flashy and poetic

My friend Kimberly Ann Southwick is Editor in Chief of a literary magazine called Gigantic Sequins you may well have heard of. (Of which you may well have heard...? Nah.) It's great and you should definitely think long and hard about picking up a copy or few.

But I tell you this now because Gigantic Sequins is running its second annual flash fiction and poetry contest! In this case, flash fiction is being defined as less than 1000 words. Oh hey! This week's challenge is also less than 1000 words! Hmmm...

Check out the details herein:

http://giganticsequins.com/contests/

The deadline is August 15th. Do it.

Week Nine: Microfiction week!

So here's the deal: these "weeks" are taking longer and longer to complete (Week Eight, for instance, was almost four months long), so for Week Nine we're going to try something different...

MICROFICTION!!!

(This is my caffeinated time. You be quiet.)

Microfiction (also called flash fiction, short-short stories, etc.) can be 200, 100, even 50 words long. After putting you all through a story 6000+ words long, I figured some brevity was in order.

This will also give me an excuse to fly through some of the more... I don't want to say "clichéd" but... beginner ideas I had during my freshman year. 

So! One a day, Monday through Friday. Get 'em all here (links will be added as they are posted):

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday