Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

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One of the reasons I love flash fiction is because the writer only has to capture “several moments” in time.  Capturing several moments in time is much easier then trying to capture days, weeks, months or even years which is what a novelist must do.  A novel takes great perseverance.  Flash fiction doesn’t take perseverance; but it does take focus and imagination.  Imagination is the fun part.

At the moment that I’m writing this, using a pencil and paper, I’m sitting on the sofa watching a cooking program on Public Television and sipping on a glass of beer.  It’s around 60 degrees in Pittsburgh on an overcast day.  Nothing much is going on with me right now.  But, I’ve been a soldier, a karaoke singer, a lover of women, a teaching assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, a life long college student, a filmmaker, a blogger, a photographer of nude women, a frontman for several rock and roll bands…The list goes on and on.  Just like the list goes on and on for any writer of fiction. 

It is this life experience that every writer’s imagination can drawn upon that allows the writer to produce creative writing.  It’s just that a flash fiction writer only has to capture the “significant moments” of his or her life to produce a good flash fiction story.

Here’s a story that I recently produced.  Tainted Love (A Short Story) www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/Tainted-Love.683751