A writ­ing prompt for a flash piece that adheres to some very strict guide­lines.

This entry thinks about ways to guide read­ers about how a spe­cif­ic flash piece might be read.

The July issue of Foundling Review has some won­der­ful work from these gift­ed writ­ers: Rebec­ca Cof­fey, Andrew Roe, Behlor San­ti, John Mid­dle­brook, and Rae Spencer.

Zoetrope Vir­tu­al Stu­dio has a writ­ing room called The Flash Fac­to­ry, and each Sun­day its host Richard Osgood posts five prompt words to be turned into a fifty-word piece of micro fic­tion.

A writ­ing mis­sion for a flash piece that adheres to some very strict guide­lines.

When it comes to words, she’s a book­worm, brain, geek, nerd, poindex­ter, spe­cial­ist, guru, and a bunch of oth­er syn­onyms. And she has a major crush on Peter Mark Roget. And you will, too, after read­ing her arti­cle.

A reprint and “read­ing” of Sam Nam’s “I Use Com­mas Like Nin­ja Stars” from Smoke­Long Quar­ter­ly.

A 50-word micro fic­tion from five prompt words.

A writ­ing prompt for a flash piece that adheres to some very strict guide­lines.

Pic­tures of Kip­per. Kip­per oh Kip­per.