A break from flash fic­tion: The Decem­berists’ song for REM fans!

Use any or all of the fol­low­ing poetical/rhetorical meth­ods to write the same 50–100 word sto­ry.

A link to David Aichenbaum’s post at the blog of Mat­ter Press,a press focused on sup­port­ing emerg­ing and estab­lished authors work­ing with con­densed forms of fic­tion, cre­ative non-fic­tion, poet­ry, and visu­al arts. 

Writer Gar­ret Gau­dens chal­lenges you to shape your inner child.

Elim­i­nat­ing the unnec­es­sary might be the sin­gle most impor­tant aspect of writ­ing an inter­est­ing flash. Here are six tips for doing just that.

A review of Bar­ry Graham’s 21 sto­ries in The Nation­al Vir­gin­i­ty Pledge, a col­lec­tion that runs away from expec­ta­tions.

Part 2 in a series from Mat­ter Press that looks at the var­i­ous def­i­n­i­tions of “mat­ter” and how each might apply to com­pressed cre­ative arts. Here, what begins with the phys­i­cal ends with the Bel­ly of the the Whale, Star Wars, and the spir­i­tu­al.

Some­thing is wait­ing to be opened. 

At the Mat­ter Press blog, David Aichen­baum looks at the “So what?” phe­nom­e­non of True Grit and com­pressed cre­ative arts, such as flash fic­tion.

Mak­ing moral­ly bad deci­sions can feel good. Write about it.