Paying The Rent

It’s a windy Sunday around 1:15pm.  I have a load of clothes in the washer in the laundry room downstairs.  The apartment building is pretty quiet.  I’m drinking beer and watching the Giants on TV.  The Steelers don’t come on until 4:15pm.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to send in a rent payment this week.  I [...]

The Impact Of Hemingway

Okay, if you don’t know it already you know it now.  I’m obsessed with Hemingway.  All you have to do to know it’s true is to read the stories on this blog.  There is the concrete language, the back and forth dialogue and the minimal exposition.  Exposition is explanation and a writer should never have [...]

14 Great Stories To Read

There are 14 short stories on this blog for your reading pleasure.  Just go to the sidebar and under Categories click on “Flash Fiction Stories.”  Once you read to the bottom of a page of stories just click on the link you find at the bottom to read more stories.  You can do this until you’ve read all the stories on [...]

Flash Fiction & The Sun Also Rises

By far my favorite writer is Ernest Hemingway and my favorite novel is The Sun Also Rises. So far I must have read the book over thirty times. There was one summer when I was a young man and trying to find my voice as a writer that I read The Sun Also Rises at [...]