Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Flash fiction is a very short story with all the elements of the classic short story. Flash fiction is a short presentation of a long subject. Flash fiction implies as much as it presents in as few words as possible. Flash fiction is the bridge between poetry and the short story.
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
I wanted to do one more posting before the Steelers came on TV. It’s an overcast chilly day in Pittsburgh. On a sunny day I can see the Cathedral of Learning of the University of Pittsburgh from my window. I can’t see it today. I’ve posted several things on the blog today and washed out [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
One of the secrets of getting published is revision. Many aspiring writers think this means doing two or three drafts. They move around sentences or delete or add paragraphs; and then they hit the send button. This my friends is not revision. This is tinkering. Revision is going over a story word by word and [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Undergraduates, graduate students, Vietnam War veterans, ageing rockers, lovers and alcoholics fighting their demons: Here are the stories of men and women struggling against loneliness and fighting for love in a world that is always at war. There are 19 short stories on this blog for your reading pleasure. Just go to the sidebar and under [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
My younger brother is an alcoholic. His name is Robert. He’s also a very generous guy. He’s helped me financially lots of times. He use to work on a garbage truck but the City of Pittsburgh gave him the option of early retirement at age fifty-one because of his arthritis and gout and other ailments, [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Ever since I enlisted in the army in 1964 I’ve been a beer drinker. I’ve spent a lot of time in bars. I still do although I do less drinking because too much beer will bring on an attack of the gout. (I’m not on any medications for anything and I want to keep from taking [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
I did stop at Nico’s. V was behind the bar. It was good to see her. A few of the regulars were there. It was great to be able to forget my problems for awhile. I really have no other network of friends besides the ones I see at the places where I stop in [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
It’s 2:15 in the afternoon, time for me to go do my weekly shopping in Bloomfield. I’ll probably stop by Nico’s to see if V is on duty. She works every other Saturday. And since I don’t go there like I use to I lose track of which Saturday she’s there; but I probably shouldn’t [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Let the good times roll! Some pundits blame MTV for the short attention span of viewers. Everywhere we go we are bombarded by information. Multi-tasking is a buzz word for the zip-zip world we live in. There is never enough time. We want and need our data right now. Through the Internet we can connect [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2008 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Several days ago I bought four notebooks and a box of #2 medium point pencils. My creative process for writing a flash fiction story has begun. I actually try to “see” the typography of a story on the page. Will it begin with two or three paragraphs of solid description? Will it begin with four [...]
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