Photo: Tandem X Visuals Past Lives Our four-year-old tells stories, usually unprompted, about his old house, this former life he had before he was with us. He lived on a farm on a country road with John Deere tractors. The deer with the sprig of whitetails gathered at the edge of the woods, and he […]Fiction … Continue reading Fiction from Tommy Dean —
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Mini-Interview with Laura Besley
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? In May 2012 I set myself a challenge to write a piece of flash fiction every day for a year. The reason I did this was because I had ideas, but never got past the first couple of paragraphs (I still have more ideas … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Laura Besley
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Mini-Interview with Dana Diehl
A perfectly smooth stone, maybe. Or a bird egg you find on the sidewalk, miraculously uncracked. When I write flash, I love that I can see the beginning and end of the story at the same time.
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Mini-Interview with Tim Fitts
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? In my mind, traditional stories lengths are like pitching a single out in baseball. Presenting the batter with a variety of images that allow him or her to think you are going to put the ball here at this speed, when, instead, you put … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Tim Fitts
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Mini-Interview with Dan Crawley
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Maybe it’s because I used to write songs when I was a teen, playing out narratives of specific characters or settings in my songs. So in my twenties, it was an easy transition into writing flash fiction. Plus, I found writers like Carver and … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Dan Crawley
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Mini-Interview with Michael Prihoda
If a novel is a polaroid whose development is slowed and stretched across hundreds of pages, flash fiction is a finger press on a camera phone. The picture springs instantly to life and the reader is allowed to look at it, and turn it over.
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Mini-Interview with Ben Loory
"Well, character is the north star; the revelation of it is what you aim for, and the feel and pull of it is how you steer. But plot is how you get there."
Mini-Interview with Hillary Leftwich
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I write flash because I’m not a traditional writer, and I like being able to write a piece without having the constraints of the short story form. What makes it different for me is being able to take a character or a scene and … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Hillary Leftwich
Mini-Interview with Nuala O’Connor
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I’ve always been obsessed with small things, tiny well-made objects, aswell as prose and poetry in its teeniest forms. I love concision, precision and neatness – I was a fan of Ivor Cutler and Emily Dickinson and other sharp, economical writers in my teens … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Nuala O’Connor
Mini-Interview with Anna Vangala Jones
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? It is incredible how we can illustrate, evoke, imply an entire life or world in a few pages, in a brief series of moments. Something small that is so much larger and more powerful in scope than it first appears, something that is fit … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Anna Vangala Jones
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