Welcome

I told myself when I retired I'd get serious about writing fiction. In 2005, my wife decided to take an early retirement package. I quit my job, and we moved to North Carolina. After taking a few months for myself, I signed up for two classes and began reading books about writing fiction.

Early in this process, I stumbled onto flash fiction and found it fit my style of writing. While this genre has many definitions, the one I see most often describes flash fiction as complete stories of 1000 words or less. Some publications limit the word count to 500, 100, or even 55. Check out a few of the e-zines found here to learn more.

It's How You Play the Game

Jeremy sat on the park bench, slouched against the north wind, his gloved hands between his knees, and watched uniformed officers enter and exit the police station across the street. Blond hair formed a halo around the edges of his ski cap. The heels of his sneakered feet tapped out a syncopated rhythm on the frosted sidewalk while he waited to see if today, his twenty-fifth birthday, was the day he would die..

Read the entire story here.

On The Premises

On The Premises is a quarterly magazine published in HTML and PDF formats. Each issue contains the winning enrtries of the contest held for that quarter. Writers of all ability levels are encouraged to participate.

Read the submission guidelines here.

Six Questions For . . .

In response to a post on my personal blog, a reader suggested I publish a series of interviews in which editors "list, in excruciating details, all that each editor desires in his/her stories." Wow. What a great idea. Not only does this provide authors with specific information about what editors are looking for in the submissions they receive, it offers editors a venue for advertising their publications and getting the word out about what, in their opinion, constitutes "good writing."