Struggling to keep up.
NO. Not my actual shorts. Those are far too gross for Teh Interwebs. These are short stories or memoirs that I’ve busted out to keep the ol’ Writery Muscles flexed.
It’s one thing seeing your childhood irrevocably changed after a flood, the fishing and swimming holes and the camping spots all gone, the blue of the water gone brown, your memories all that are left. It’s another thing entirely to not remember where you buried him, the first one. The worst one. You fight down […]
Yet another example of masturbating my book characters all over a short story, this is an interaction that’s heavily-based in my world, and maybe wasn’t the best way to slap a short story together. Especially for something as exciting and important as The Little Journal, something put together by the most-excellent people at Writing WA […]
Another Furious Fiction piece, this one for March. Here’s the prompts: Each story had to include a character who revisits something. Each story had to include the same colour in its first and last sentence. Each story had to include the words CAMP, FAST and SPARK. I’d forgotten the details of this one, which usually […]
Stringybark Stories has a great newsletter and sometimes has these giveaways of their anthologies based on Flash Fiction comps. 100 words that had to include: foetid, portrait, sensitive and joyful. I have no recollection of the inspiration for this one, which makes re-reading it, rediscovering it, all the more fun. It’s like reading something, enjoying […]
This was an entry for Writing Battle, which is a concept that I still find amazing and fascinating. You write something under 1000 words that follows a few prompts, then it goes to “battle” against another story and a group of folks vote on who wins. Meanwhile, you do the same for another group, reading […]