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83Five Key Elements Of Writing A Short Story
(In response to THIS request) Writing a short story can be broken down in many ways, but the following five elements constitute what I believe make up a pretty solid core: Character Desire Conflict ...
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79All About Flash Fiction
Flash fiction is a form of short story writing that is very tight and very concise. It pulls the reader in with the barest amount of fluff and lives or dies in the space of 250-1,000 words(though there is no...
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65Loaves: A Short Short Story
This short short story contains mild potty humor, but nothing that I would consider inappropriate or non-child-friendly. Please enjoy. There once was a young lady named Sarah Sweet who lived with her mother...
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62Five 50 Word Stories By ESWynn
“You still doing tattoos?” Johnathon asked. “Sure am.” Replied the old salt. “You charge... much?” The old sailor looked up, squinted. “You want a tattoo boy? Want to look like a man?" ...
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54One a Day
The sunlight that bled through the translucent curtains and crept past the drawn shades mixed with the luminescence of the television screen, barely providing enough light for Frank to read. Holding the...
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54ShortFiction Decision Time
Despite the weatherman’s predictions for rain the night before, the sky was clear and Paul felt great. It had been a rough night with Joey in town, but Paul had that vitality that came with being...
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55A Little Drizzle Means a Lot of Dough
I leave the coffeehouse I’ve been at the last two, two and a half hours. I exit through the back way, down the alley. The alley is warm, run-down. It’s cooing at me. With each step my blood begins to move...
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56Writing In A Flash--Learning the Art of Super Short Fiction
In a recent post I spoke about the six-word-memoir. The six-word-memoir wasn’t my idea, but when I heard about it I was instantly enthralled and delighted. I couldn’t get enough of those one sentence...
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55Though I Sleep In Exile
If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Nietzsche Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -Tolstoy It’s gonna get fucking cold in Siberia, where I have exiled myself, filthy,...
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