Ghosts and dreams and sleepwalkers through life are all part and parcel of these eight stories. With just a touch of surrealism they draw the reader into a singular fictional world where we forget all about real world problems. After … Continue reading Favorite Fiction 1st Quarter 2022
A quick update on my recent publications. Today I have two centos in Emerge Journal’s Tenth Anniversary issue. Thanks to Ariana DenBlyker for her years of work and support for the writing community and happy anniversary! My poems are here … Continue reading Poems & Flash Fictions
This is a quick and dirty post because I procrastinated putting it together because, well, that’s what I do, sometimes. Sigh. If I proclaimed New Years resolutions I’d proclaim not to procrastinate but I don’t so I won’t. So if, … Continue reading Favorite Fiction: 4th Quarter 2021
It’s Prosery Monday at dVerse Poetry Pub. Today Merril challenges us to write a prose piece of no more than 144 words including the following quote: “I am bombarded yet I stand.”From Adrienne Rich, “Planetarium” My piece is titled “Clipped … Continue reading Clipped Wings
Shouldn’t it still be April? Lol, well it soon will be again. I have been meaning to post links to my recent publications as they occur but never did so here they are, if anyone is interested. Many thanks to … Continue reading It’s crazy how time flies
Oh, friends. I have a stellar selection of Flash Fiction for you this quarter. Stellar! Each one of these stories blew me away when I read them. They range from poignant and heartbreaking to spooky and freaky. They are all … Continue reading Favorite Fiction 3rd Quarter 2021
All of the writers I’m linking to today did way more than “pretty well”. Flash Fiction is hard to write. It takes critical thinking, imagination – lots of imagination – and really good flow. IMO, good flow from one section … Continue reading Favorite Flash Fiction: 1st Quarter 2021
I’m happy to have a new Flash Fiction in Love in the Time of Covid Chronicle. Thanks to Michelle Elvy and Witi Ihimaera for publishing this piece & to Michelle for her awesome editing suggestions. Don’t miss this gorgeous issue! Continue reading A New Flash Fiction
It’s been Lucky February for me! I am so grateful to Twin Pies Literary and Fevers of the Mind Poetry Blog for selecting my work for their fine publications. My Flash Fiction piece, “Four Levels of Infatuation“, is in Twin Pies new issue. Thank you, Jessica Evans and D.T. Robbins! My two poems, “Shelter in Place” and “Swaddling the Beast, are currently featured on Fevers of the Mind. Many thanks to David L O’Nan! * This weekend should have been the big parade weekend before Fat Tuesday but, alas, the pandemic has cancelled Mardi Gras, as we’ve always known it. … Continue reading Twin Pies Lit + Fevers of the Mind
Can I just say that the more Flash Fiction I read, the more I want to read. I love this genre so much and man are we lucky to have some really great FF writers in our world. Here are a few stories that just wowed me recently. Enjoy! * Jennifer Toddhunter in Twin Pies Literary – Us Girls at our Boys’ Graduation “Us girls get ready for our boys’ graduation, stick cigarettes in our push-up bras, cut the hems of our second-hand dresses just so. We talk about what it’ll be like to graduate ourselves one day, how we’ll … Continue reading Flash Fiction That Will Drop Your Mouth Open
Charlotte Hamrick 