#FridayFlash from Suicide Notes – #6: Jim

Posted by on Oct 29, 2010 in 5MinuteFiction, Flash Fiction, Short Stories | 4 comments

This piece is part of the #SuicideNotes project and was originally written by Richard B. Wood as part of a #5MinuteFiction challenge. He generously offered it to me for this project. I’ve tweaked it so that it fits the style of the other Notes, but the original story is Richard’s. This is the end. I’ve got it right, I think. I looked into this. I...

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#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three WINNER!

Posted by on Oct 26, 2010 in 5MinuteFiction, Flash Fiction, Writers, Writing Competition | 2 comments

Oh, aren’t I late posting this tonight? Sorry, real life happened to me tonight. Hate it when that happens. But this one sure wasn’t one you could predict anytime before the very last second. Awesome. It was so close, back and forth between R.C. Murphy, @RCMurphy and Tony Noland, @TonyNoland and I love watching the contests like this. Well, I gotta...

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#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three Finalists

Posted by on Oct 26, 2010 in 5MinuteFiction, Flash Fiction, Writers, Writing Competition | 1 comment

Oh, I thought I was so clever, naming myself judge this week. OK, the joke’s on me. And all you former judges are laughing your asses off. Yeah. OK. Funny, funny. But I did decide. I was very tempted to cheat, because I can, and I was just agonizing over three entries I had to pick between at the end. But I did. With a secret longing in my heart for those...

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#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three

Posted by on Oct 26, 2010 in 5MinuteFiction, Flash Fiction | 20 comments

This, in case you somehow missed the title of the post, is 5MinuteFiction. You have been assimilated. And welcome to 5MinuteFiction. That means we write fiction. In five minutes. Shocker, I know. The Rules * You get five minutes to write a piece of prose in any style or genre * You must directly reference today’s prompt: reverse (Note: The prompt is the...

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South Carolina Writer’s Workshop Weekend Wrap-Up

Posted by on Oct 25, 2010 in Random | 3 comments

Great, great, great weekend. I attended my first writer’s convention this past weekend in Myrtle Beach, SC. I came away from it with both less and more than I expected, but the more was really, really more. (What an odd sentence. Why is describing a great writer’s conference making me totally inarticulate?) The editor from Tor, Eric Raab, was...

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