Flash Fic­tion Reprint: “For the third April morn­ing in a row, Dr. Swift has turned off his pager.”

BSF 2016 con­tains forty-five flash fic­tions, all of which should please both those new & old to small fic­tions.

Flash fic­tion reprint: “You were tired of rust and ash, of flake and gray.”

Thanks to her new lov­ing fam­i­ly, after 8 years in a pup­py mill, Pop­pins now has a chance to become a star. Can Pop­pins con­vince the rest of the world that old dogs still shine bright­ly?

Flash Fic­tion Reprint, Eliz­a­beth Brinsfield’s “Water-hemmed”: “There is a win­dow in my mother’s attic that opens from the floor.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint of Jolene McIlwain’s “Seed To Full”: “After you’ve felled the tree and dragged it from the site and hauled it to the mill, one of the first things you do is scale it, mea­sure to find out how many board foot it can yield.”

Flash Fic­tion Reprint from Susan Rukeyser’s “His Venus”: A year ago, Dana was fat in a fer­til­i­ty-fetish sort of way.

Back­sto­ry can be a tricky sub­ject when writ­ing short sto­ries, espe­cial­ly in the realm of fan­ta­sy.

I intend to exam­ine the rela­tion­ship between dia­logue and sub­text, pro­vid­ing spe­cif­ic exam­ples from “Car Crash While Hitch­hik­ing,” as well as broad­en­ing the dis­cus­sion to include tech­niques writ­ers can use to improve this rela­tion­ship between dia­logue and sub­text in their own sto­ries.

Flash fic­tion reprint from Jon Sin­dell: “Dad’s eight­i­eth birth­day was a cos­tume par­ty. I was Maria Von Trap…”