Wednesday
For almost three years, wherever he went, Victor Stabin brought a dictionary along. Combing through over 8,000 pages of a variety of dictionaries, he came up with the alliterations that inhabit this work.
Wednesday
For almost three years, wherever he went, Victor Stabin brought a dictionary along. Combing through over 8,000 pages of a variety of dictionaries, he came up with the alliterations that inhabit this work.
Monday
We republish a look at Kathy Fish’s “Wren” to celebrate the release of her flash fiction collection WILD LIFE.
Saturday
“When people stop to ask you what you are doing, tell them that you are reading aloud from a collection by the best flash fiction writer in America.”
Thursday
The short short, pieces one-thousand words or less, arises as the perfect form to contain such a dynamic–its Dionysian need to end almost before it begins and its Apollonian quest to arrive at meaning before, like lightning, the whole piece disappears–infuses the short short form with tremendous tension, something I call “tragic urgency.”
Wednesday
For almost three years, wherever he went, Victor Stabin brought a dictionary along. Combing through over 8,000 pages of a variety of dictionaries, he came up with the alliterations that inhabit this work.
Thursday
A review of Tiff Holland’s award-winning flash collection BETTY SUPERMAN
Wednesday
…for that need to face the fear of uncertainty with each word, and as Lacan tells us, even our words contain only an uncertain approximation of the Real, but still we set out word after word, like breadcrumbs and bricks…
Tuesday
Thomas Cooper’s flash fiction collection Phantasmagoria is a gripping 44-page compilation of intense short pieces constructed on themes of love and loss. T
Thursday
Narrative-based flash pieces tell a story. The basic structure of such a narrative might go something like this: (1) something creates a very strong desire in the character, a desire which creates the need for (2) some kind of action(s) to fulfill this desire, leading ultimately to (3) a resolution/revelation.
Tuesday
An interactive interview about flash fiction.