#FridayFlash from Suicide Notes – #6: Jim

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...

#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three WINNER!

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,...

#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three Finalists

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...

#5MinuteFiction Week Twenty-Three

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...

South Carolina Writer’s Workshop Weekend Wrap-Up

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...