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 Lists … LISTS 1% milk Yellow cheese slices Plain nonfat yogurt White bread Salted […]
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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: Museums (preferably art museums) … POP-UP The museum appeared suddenly, without notice, in the old
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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 after it rains. … DON’T Don’t trust anyone with a banjo; don’t trust
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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: Random Acts of Kindness. … THE CURSE You’ve always had problems containing yourself into the
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Ugh…I should have written this earlier. The number is my guesstimate for where this will go eventually. 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
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: Unexpected Friendships. … GETTING OVER IT Mom and me and Princess Cookie were riding
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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: Bookstore. … FINAL CLEARANCE EVERYTHING MUST GO For years I lived next to a
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Tales Of The Normal: 31 Days of the Horrific & Mundane, Day 1 Today begins a bunch of free short fiction for the month of October! I decided this year to go with a theme of “Normal things that people normally enjoy…gone wrong.” You can find last year’s stories here, or at Amazon as October Nights. Tales
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I’m trying to look at books the way a librarian might, in order to help get me better at thinking from a reader’s point of view. Here are the other posts in the series. … Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo is a collection of short stories set in Japan. The stories are all written
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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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