The week­ly pick at Smoke­Long Quar­ter­ly: Peter Grand­bois with “Dancer.”

I think flash will always have such chal­lenges attached to it, the chal­lenge of com­pressed nar­ra­tive and the chal­lenge of nar­ra­tive-alter­na­tives.

On May 8th in Paris, they guil­lotined Antoine Lavoisi­er, con­sid­ered The Father of Mod­ern Chem­istry. The judge said, “The Repub­lic needs nei­ther sci­en­tists nor chemists; the course of jus­tice can­not be delayed.” 

Write what Robert Swart­wood has defined as “hint fic­tion.”

A 50-word micro fic­tion piece from a prompt of 5 ran­dom words: surf, roost­er, emer­ald, melody, umbrel­la.

This Friday’s flash prompt chal­lenges your abil­i­ty to cre­ate sim­i­les as one eats chips or peanuts, one after anoth­er.

A look at how synec­doche (a form of metaphor, in which the part stands in for the whole) might get­ting you search­ing for the ONE in your flash.

A look at the “pos­i­tive” rejec­tion.

Mary Tabor answers ques­tions about her flash mem­oir, (RE) MAKING LOVE: A SEX AFTER SIXTY STORY.

Anne Willkomm reviews Mary Tabor’s blog-begun flash mem­oir (RE) MAKING LOVE: A SEX AFTER SIXTY STORY