Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Making people smile … MINIMUM WAGE She had a retail job selling food products at […]
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This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of the series is here. You may also want to check out the series on pacing, here, which I’m eventually going to fold into this series
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: The smell of sunscreen … THAT WORD FOR WHEN YOU KNOW BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Bonfires … BONFIRES …A bronze plate etched with patterns, the kind of big metal platter
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Alone time … EXTROVERT She was out in her driveway again, in the dark, at
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Cute journals … THE JOURNAL Tanya received a journal for her twelfth birthday from her
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Gift cards … THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS He had been drifting away from people lately:
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Plane tickets … L’APPEL DU VIDE If you had two free one-way plane tickets to
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Flash fiction project: one dark story per day, all the way through October, each one based on one normal thing gone wrong. More of this year’s stories here. You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. … Normal thing: Arts and crafts … THE FOURTH WISH Tamra Triplett was thinking about what would happen
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I would like to note that the real reason I have this complicated numbering scheme is so I don’t forget what the heck I’m doing! This is part of a series on how to study fiction, mainly directed at writers who have read all the beginning writing books and are like, “What now?!?” The rest of
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