Great American Flash Fiction Stories To Read

The Gazette is home to flash fiction, micro fiction, mini fiction and the very short story.  Here you will find stories about boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives and stories about lovers.  There are stories about love and lust. Writing flash fiction is not easy.  For the best examples of dialogue driven flash fiction, go [...]

Flash Fiction Has Never Been Sexier

Hello, my brother and sister bloggers and writers.  It’s the Old Soldier here with more great flash fiction and more great articles about writing flash fiction. Now most of us like a little sex in our reading entertainment.  So, if you haven’t done so already go to the top of the page and click on the [...]

This Is Not The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not publish flash fiction.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not publish articles on blogging.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not publish advice and tips on writing.  The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette does all three.  Just go to the sidebar on the right and check out the many stories and articles… It’s a rainy [...]

Baby Boomer Madness

  The Old Soldier grew up with the music of The Doors.  Here’s a photo of me and a friend from about 10 years ago.  Where do you think bloggers and flash fiction writers get their short story ideas from?  You have to live it up in order to write it down.

New Flash Fiction by Guy Hogan

Forbidden Love   It was a warm, sunny April morning in downtown Pittsburgh. The letter Frank Everett got the day before from the State Civil Service Commission stated that only 10 people in the County of Allegheny had scored higher than he had on the State Civil Service Test. That meant he’d probably have a [...]

Bloggers & Writers Rejoice!

It’s the Old Soldier here with another edition of The Gazette on a beautiful morning in Pittsburgh.  The Steelers don’t play until 4:00 pm so that gives me plenty of time to get myself together and to do a little blogging before going on a beer run to Bloomfield to get a sixpack for the [...]

Be Proud You Write Flash Fiction

Do you write flash fiction?  Be proud you write flash fiction.  It’s not easy to write good flash fiction.  Many writers cannot write good flash fiction.  Writing flash fiction is not for the squeamish. If you are a flash fiction writer, let The Gazette be your flash fiction home.  Just look around.  You will find [...]

Welcome To The Home Of Flash Fiction

Guy Hogan is my name and flash fiction is my game.  If you love to read flash fiction, The Gazette has you covered.  If you want articles full of useful advice and tips on the writing of flash fiction, The Gazette has you covered.  And if you want to submit flash fiction, The Gazette has that covered, [...]

New Flash Fiction by LaVonda Krout

In the Glovebox   I bought the car from a greasy, gray-haired man in tight jeans . . . the worn outline of his Skoal can tracing the right front pocket. He needed a shave, a bath and an oil change. “Yeah, she’s a beauty, isn’t she?” he said.  “Only 73,000 actual miles” I thought, [...]

New Flash Fiction by Aaron Sommers

Detour Ahead   There was frost on the sidewalk and so I was glad she stopped to pick me up. I know you might think it was crazy of me to hitch-hike in this crazy day in age, but this was one of those desperate times. As soon as the door opened I heard Robert Palmer blasting “I [...]