#flashnano

I did this in 2014, but I’m doing it again! I plan to write at least 15 Nancy/Ned stories this month. My goal is 30, but I’m a human being with a full-time job, yo.

If you subscribe to my Patreon this month at the $1 level, you’ll have access to 5 stories*!

$5 subscribers will see 10 stories*!

$10 subscribers will see 15 stories*!

It’s awesome! If you were thinking about it but haven’t backed me yet, now’s an awesome time to do it.

*Planned. Actual results may vary and maybe be even more awesome.

Day 10: Write a story using 10 sentences of 10 words each

Disco Room by Peter M, flickr When I was ten, I wore YoYo sandals, Gloria Vanderbilts. Jayne Anne Westerfield taught me the disco line dance. “Are you clicking your teeth to the beat?” she said. I stopped clicking, tried to be cool like Jayne Anne. You were nobody if you couldn’t “Fever” dance in Arkansas. Chad had taught me Cat Scratch Fever on my guitar. Karen’s big sister used to drag Cherry…

FlashNano, Day 3: “Find a Vein and Let it Bleed”

For Day 3 of FlashNano, I decided not to do a reblog and just keep this response to Flashnano mostly confined to “Within a Forest Dark.” Hopefully, I haven’t already confused readers with reblogs. (I once directed someone to my blog because he wanted to see my writing and he said I didn’t post here. I have the feeling he didn’t really think I wrote and was just copying and pasting the work of…

Bekk II, Nick Vidal-Hall, flickr One thing I enjoy about flash fiction writing is that it often involves community. A few years ago, I joined an online platform for poets and writers. We frequently posted new short pieces and received encouragement and feedback. It was my first time interacting with other writers who, like me, were writing small, concentrated work. I have also been involved in…

red sweater flashnano day 1

Photo by Sara Darcaj on Unsplash

My ghost is wearing my red sweater. After papers were signed and locks were changed, I realized I left behind the sweater as well as a French cookbook. Would she try to cook from it? I’m telling you now she will suck. She doesn’t have the finesse that comes only with age. And a lot of cooking.

She is straddling the stadium seat and laughing hard at something my ex…

Flashnano Day 6: Write a story in the form of a folktale. “A Tale of Two Men”

photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy, flickr

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There once was a man who lived in a pine forest. Every evening, he laid a woman’s nightgown beside him in his big iron bed. Every evening, he set two extra places at his broad table. Every week, he bought food and clothing for the family he did not yet have. He bought toys for the child, jewelry for his wife.

Every night he prayed to his god fervently: “God,…

Flash Nano Starts Today!

Flash Nanostarts today! The flash companion to Nanowrimo, you write 30 flash fictions in 30 days. This will be my fourth year with this (Nancy Stohlman got me involved and I rely on her prompts and posts for this quite a bit) which is always fun because we always go out of the country this time of year and I have to do part of this from France, Vietnam, Ecuador/Peru, shortly Ireland, and so on.…