Brautigan’s short poems strike me as excel­lent exam­ples of mov­ing, effec­tive hint fic­tion.

A review of Caia Hagel’s chap­book about a man in his twen­ties still wear­ing the Spi­der­man cos­tume his moth­er made for him.

FlashFiction.Net intro­duces its new ven­tures: Mat­ter Press, The Jour­nal of Com­pressed Cre­ative Arts, and The Mat­ter Press blog.

Jor­dan Blum wants you to talk to the dead.

Liesl Job­son pro­vides encour­ag­ment “To My Friend and Every Writer Who Has Been Told S/He Sucks”

A review of Joshua Cohen’s BRIDGE & TUNNEL (TUNNEL & BRIDGE), from The Cup­board Pam­phlet.

A link to Chad Simpson’s Smoke­Long Quar­ter­ly inter­view about flash, in par­tic­u­lar the role of flash in the writing/literature class­room.

A 50-word micro fic­tion piece from a prompt of five ran­dom words: recipe, chalk, gim­mick, sin­u­ous, non­sense.

A prompt for the beat­nik in all of us

Flash fic­tion writer Richard Gro­hows­ki talks about keys to abstrac­tion in com­pressed fic­tion.