Friday
You've been writing flash for awhile now. You've been focused on surprising readers/editors with the odd situation, the thing they've never seen before. Maybe you've even taken on the familiar story—the abused spouse, the guy-girl bar story, the terminally ill spouse/lover/parent/grandparent. Now it's time for you to stretch those flash muscles for the Olympics of Flash Writing. Are you ready for this? You will write today about someone's conversation with God!
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Trust me when I say that no flashes I've read as a "slush reader" has ever successfully handled the conversation with God story (one that involves a back and forth conversation between a mortal & God). There's so much to nail: God's voice/tone/attitude, the subject of the conversation, the consequence/purpose of it, the setting, the gender, the race, and so on and so forth. It's impossible, I tell you.
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So that's your flash fiction challenge, should you choose to accept it. Definitely let me know if you end up with something that works, is accepted somewhere, and so forth. And I wish you all the luck in the world for this one. You'll need it. (Evil laugh).
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