Posted on January 31, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Saying Grace The old man could not place the name of the book he just read, and so his wife joined a support group. At the first meeting, a local newspaper reporter interviewed her for a forthcoming article with the tentative title “Caregivers: Can they give too much?” Because the interview would extend into lunchtime [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
I stand at the upstairs bar. Two couples walk in. The doorman checks their IDs. The one girl must have a pretty good fake ID. She comes closer and I see the irises of her eyes are violet. She’s a stunner. A shoulder-length mass of shiny auburn curls frame her face. Both couples sit at the [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Patricia Rossellini Antonnelli was eighteen. Her father owned a construction company. Her home was the only home with twelve foot pillars around the ground floor in a neighborhood of very nice homes. At Boyce Campus none of the other female students could compete with her beauty. The male students made assumptions about her. It was [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
I was desperate for a girlfriend. I was twenty-one-years old. I was back from Vietnam and discharged from the army. I moved out of my parents’ suburban home into an efficiency in the city. My parents did not want me to go. I couldn’t explain to them how I needed a place of my own, a [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
The weather is cold and snowy but the weekend is finally here and I’m starting to feel for the first time that I’m finding my sea legs at work; so I’m looking forward to work this morning and then two days off with the Super Bowl on Sunday and everyone in Pittsburgh certain that come Monday the [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
The last few days Pittsburgh has been getting hit with Steelers weather; so when I came out this morning on my way to work carrying a suit and shirt in a plastic bag along with my lunch I started across the street between two parked cars to get to the mail box across the street [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
1) Flash fiction captures a moment in time. 2) It is the short trajectory of flash fiction that gives it its impact. 3) Flash fiction is made up of a significant event and closure. 4) There are three basic kinds of closure: an epiphany, a change in direction and a summation. 5) Dialogue must move [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
B.J. Kent asked Judy Lamar to join him after class for a couple of beers, his treat. Judy said sure. It would be the fourth time in two weeks that Judy had said yes to joining B.J. for a few beers. B.J. was sure Judy liked him. He sure liked Judy. Judy had large, firm [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Writer’s note: she’s studying acting and has been offered a plum part off-Broadway; but of course she can’t accept it if she has the baby. Plus, the baby is not her boyfriend’s. She has issues. Two kinds of fish swam in the muddy water. The bright orange fish were nearly a foot long and stayed [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
If you’ve read the stories on this blog you know the quality of the fiction here so become a guest author by submitting your story for a quick response if the story is not a good fit or a hands-on critique to get it ready for publication in The Gazette or publication if you nail [...]
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