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Flash Fiction Series Flash fiction is generally defined as prose in the 250-750 word length. Hence the "flash" part of flash fiction. Short and to the point, it forces a writer to focus on quality rather than quantity. I had an editor, who once forced me to write a newspaper article that I thought was worth a thousand words in a quarter of that length. When I protested, he said that less is more. Every word counts. Every paragraph is vital. If you skip a single sentence, nothing makes sense. And that, he said, is good journalism. I've decided to take his advice and use it in fiction. Let's see if I can't flesh out ideas in 750 words or less. FLASH FICTION: My Guitar · Smashing Plates Lies · Bedroom Window |
Short Stories Series I'm working on a series of short erotica stories. They will be flash glimpses into the lives of women living in Texas. Some stories are true -- accounts I've heard from friends -- and others are purely fictional. I hope to use some of them as contributions to short anthologies. SHORT STORIES: The Hitchhiker · Been Gone Too Long · Backward Date · |