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Six Things Your Flash Desires « Flash Fiction Chronicles

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Randall Brown over at FFC today.

Thanks Randall for another terrific post. I love the way you can get down to the nitty gritty of what makes a piece work and how to look at our own processes. “To be inhaled.” “Be little.” and this “Flash searches for the alternative way to matter in this world. Sometimes it finds profundity in what others find nothingness; other times, it finds meaning by eschewing their desire for somethingness.” Love these.

http://www.everydayfiction.com/flashfictionblog/six-things-your-flash-desires/

Podcast EDF016: THE BREACH • written Gay Degani • read by Robert C. Eccles | Every Day Fiction – The once a day flash fiction magazine.

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Just found out a 50-word bit of mine is up at 50 to 1 today. Also sci-fi! what’s going on with me? Yikes?

http://50-to-1.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-next-by-gay-degani.html

Robert C. Eccles reads The Breach at Every Day Fiction today. This is the second story I published online and shocked myself that it happened to be sci-fi. SCI-FI!!!

Although I’ve read Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, Jack Finney all when I was a lot younger, and love Stars Wars (really just the original series and only “Jedi” since in was the capper), The Terminator series (1 and 2), Alien, Aliens–I’m noticing a trend of disliking the third in a series here–and back in the day, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original), The Thing (original), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, I didn’t really think I knew enough science (and I don’t) to really work in the genre. So this piece surprised me.

Listening to it being read today by the remarkable Bob Eccles gave me a thrill despite notice a few places I’d like to rewrite. Haha. The curse of the rewriter.

Anyway thank you Bob for such a fabulous read. What a terrific start to the week.

Winners Announced in String-of-10 TWO Contest « Flash Fiction Chronicles

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Winners Announced in String-of-10 TWO Contest « Flash Fiction Chronicles

Flash Fiction Chronicles is pleased to announce the winners of the String-of-10 Two Micro Fiction Contest:

First Place
Salvation by Anne Pino
Second Place
Gypsy Flour by John Towler
Third Place
Good Morning Susan by Brittany Soder

For more info go to Flash Fiction Chronicles

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I am rapidly turning into a non-blogger which has both its good points and bad points. I like having a place to go to vent about what annoys me (grocery store seem to pop up in my mind), to announce what’s going on with my writing, and to discuss various issues as they strike me, especially in regard to my creative side. BUT I just can’t see to show up.

I’m not making any commitments, vows, and pronouncements any more. That’s one of my 2010 resolutions. Every time I make a new promise to do something, that will assure the world that it ain’t going to happen. Instead, I’ll just trip a bit here about where my head is at.

1) My head is, in fact, just a wee bit hung over (and what’s wrong with the head is always wrong with the body). Why since I rarely drink? Well, dang, we had dinner at friends for the Oscar telecast and the first thing I was offered was champagne. I have to drink champagne, especially if I’m watching the Academy awards.

  • My mother and I loved old movies and we loved the oscars. I don’t think there was a year in my growing up that she and I didn’t sit down and watch them together. My mother kind of looked like Joan Bennett or Hedy Lamar. I thought Hedy myself and I was a fan, but Mom said when she was young it was Joan Bennett that people thought she reminded them of.

  • I used to know all the top three awards from 1928 through sometime in the mid sixties because for some reason it seemed important for me to know it. So I knew that emil jennings (jannings) was the first winner and I think he actually appeared as a character in Inglorious Bastards. Perhaps I was only one of few who could make that connection. All that memorizing so that in 2010, I could do that! Haha!! Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven won for best actress and Wings for best picture, but I could be misremembering…

2) It was the Maker’s Mark, though, not the champagne that did me in. People kept handing me that nice little glass with the dark amber liquid in the bottom. That happened to me before at the rehearsal dinner of my son’s wedding. I have no memory of that night after the second drink except for a vague image of myself making a toast. I guess my son is lucky his bride’s family didn’t hold it against him.

3) I’m going to go back to grocery stores for a minute.

  • When I was growing up, the other thing I did a lot with my mother was to go to grocery stores and buy food. She cooked a lot, a good southern cook, so we were at the grocery store a lot.

  • In those days, grocery clerks tended to be people who acted like neighbors, friendly, out going, remembering her customers names. Not like today when most clerks spend most of their time reciting a script that Safeway has given them: How are you today? (They don’t give a shit), Do you have a Von’s card? (before you’ve even put all your stuff on the conveyor belt), Would you like to make a donation to leukemia, breast cancer, jerry’s kids, prostate cancer? (and then you have to click no or yes to the same question on the machine that makes love to your credit card) and finally the most irritating Would you like help to your car? (Uh, no, thank you. Not after I’ve just bagged up my own twelve bags myself because all the box people are checking everyone else out so that there aren’t more than two people in line without regard to the fact that the customers overall wait remains the same unless he or she –the cranky ones like me–bag there own stuff and where in heavens name is the person going to come from to help me to my car????)

  • In those days too the clerk would ask about your day and listen to your answer. Not become distracted with the next clerk over’s hook-up with some guy she met in a club.

Okay, enough of that stuff. Phew. I do feel better. Hmm, I’m getting a little bit hungry now. Maybe I’ll go in and have some oatmeal and an episode of Law and Order now. Yes I think I will.

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From the Editors of Every Day Fiction.

The Best of Every Day Fiction TWO Anthology sales are going well, and we’re now looking for reviews! We love reader reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever else you buy books online, and we’re also very happy with blog love (or blog-literary-criticism). And if we’ve got any professional reviewers out there among our readers, well, we’d love for you to contact us.

For Readers:
We’ve got the usual great variety of styles and flavours for you this month, with fresh stories from names you’ll recognize, including Gay Degani and Kevin Shamel, along with a variety of new-to-EDF authors such as Christopher Floyd and Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen.
For St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th, we’re featuring the appropriately-titled “Patrick’s Day” by J.C. Towler.

And once you’ve had your daily dose of fiction, consider heading over to Every Day Poets for a dash of poetry in your life. Even if you’re not up to poetry every day, though, do take a look at February’s most-read poems: “Monday Morning Before the Garbage Truck Comes” by Linda Simoni-Wastila, “Lost & Found” by Stacy Post, and “The Emancipation of Sylvia Plath” by David Siegel Bernstein.

For Writers:
We’re still looking for stories suitable for spring and Easter — remember to fill in the “Targeted” field in the submission form so we don’t miss them!

Also, we’ve had another changeover in the slush reading department: Katheryn McLaughlin and Hillary Degani have moved on to other things, and we’re happy to welcome Martin Turton and Brenda Stokes to the team. Check out our staff page to learn more about Martin and Brenda. We’re always looking for more slush readers — it’s only a three-month commitment (extendable by mutual agreement, of course), no experience necessary. If you’re interested in reading slush for us, click here to learn more.

We’re also delighted to have K.C. Ball joining us as guest editor for the month of March. K.C. is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. In addition to nine stories at Every Day Fiction, her work has appeared in various print and on-line publications, including Flash Fiction Online and Analog. Her story “Coward’s Steel” will appear in the Writers of the Future 26 anthology this August. K.C. is the editor of 10Flash Quarterly and blogs about writing at A Moving Line.

Have you been following our Flash Fiction Chronicles blog? Just in case you missed them, the most-read posts over the past month include “What is Flash Fiction?”: Imagine You Were Born To Answer It and “Who Cares?”: The Nuts & Bolts of Making Narrative Matter, both by Randall Brown, and also The Short Story According to Nik by Nik Perring.

March’s Table of Contents
Mar 1/Bruce Stirling/Stairway to Heaven
Mar 2/Jacky Taylor/Only at the End of the Road
Mar 3/R.F. Marazas/Long Night of the Witch
Mar 4/Kendra Cummings/HR Hell
Mar 5/James Bloomer/Build, Build, Build
Mar 6/Gaius Coffey/Terry and the Eye
Mar 7/Katherine Clements/Crane Fly
Mar 8/Tara Gilboy/Stages of Grief
Mar 9/K. V. Douglass/The Daughter
Mar 10/David Dalglish/All I Did Was Look
Mar 11/Matthew Wimmer/Take Stock of Your Life
Mar 12/Jenny Schwartz/Centauri Calling
Mar 13/David Rees-Thomas/The Hardest Walk
Mar 14/Timothy Miller/The Root
Mar 15/Christopher Floyd/Brewers Fan
Mar 16/Gay Degani/Soggy Sandy
Mar 17/J.C. Towler/Patrick’s Day
Mar 18/Michael Ehart/Matamoros Shuffle
Mar 19/Lindsey Duncan/Ostracized
Mar 20/Frank Roger/Back In Touch
Mar 21/Jerry Kraft/Games of Chance
Mar 22/Dan Purdue/Changeover Day
Mar 23/Kevin Shamel/What Name Do I Give Her?
Mar 24/Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen/Lollipop
Mar 25/Aaron Polson/Billy Boy
Mar 26/Nick Allen/Final Answers
Mar 27/Jennifer Campbell-Hicks/Ripples
Mar 28/Richmond Weems/Herschel Kriege, 65
Mar 29/Elina Michaels/Failure
Mar 30/Tyrean Martinson/Enough To Do
Mar 31/Christopher Allen/The Orangery