Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

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It was great to be able to get outside again after being stuck in my apartment for over a week.  I was a little unsteady on my feet but the sun was shinning and the warm breeze blew gently on my face, neck and arms.

Hello, my brother and sister bloggers, readers, writers and my Flash Fiction Fanatics.  The Old Soldier is quickly regaining his strength.  Since I’ve been stuck in my apartment, Amy Winehouse died, Norway was hit by a terror attack, famine is stalking West Africa again and the US Government is a week away from defaulting on its financial commitments for the first time in history.

The stories of a flash fiction writer do not take place in a vacuum even if the event in a very short story is about something that takes place on a very personal level and must be presented in only a few hundred words.

The world that the writer lives in will always impact the things the writer writes about, directly or indirectly; and the reader may never know what that impact is.

This is one of the many mysteries of creative writing.

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