Posted on April 19, 2010 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Hello my brother and sister bloggers and writers. Welcome to the world of flash fiction. The Pirates swept the Reds and the Penguins are one up in the series. Pirate fans, we better enjoy this while we can… You cannot ask for better weather today in Pittsburgh. The sun is shinning and it’s around 60 degrees [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
The familiar classic form of a short story is pretty much set in stone. There is the setup, the buildup and the payoff. This is the same form for flash fiction, sudden fiction, short short stories and very short stories. Or a writer can think of a story as a building. Here are some of the [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
If you are a writer, a blogger or a reader, here are 11 stories for your reading pleasure. The stories are about love, money, being a writer, writing, being a blogger, blogging, sex, booze and about karaoke on a Friday night in Pittsburgh; about man, woman, love, Vietnam and about being a wife and a lover. Presented in these flash [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
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; [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Hello, my brother and sister bloggers and writers. It’s a dreary, overcast day in Pittsburgh. But blogging must go on… Sunday is the Pittsburgh Marathon. Organizers have registered 9000 runners. No, I won’t by running… Yes, the Old Soldier has a short short story for your reading pleasure. The title is “Tainted Love.” You know [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
“Writing short on long subjects” is one of the best definitions I’ve come across about what the writer of the short short, flash fiction and very short story does. I don’t know where I came across the saying but it stuck with me. These short narratives that the very short story writer writes are not [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
If you read or write short stories, flash fiction, micro-fiction, sudden fiction, short shorts or very short stories you will love these stories about love, relationships, writing, karaoke, sexuality, war, alcoholism, money and the mysteries of life. The stories are: True Love Young Love This Man and This Woman in Love The Modern American Woman The [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
It’s around 9:00 a.m. in Pittsburgh and it’s a sunny day. It’s suppose to be around 80 degrees today. A great day for being outside. Or a great day for blogging. Or a great day for writing… Wouldn’t it be great if Obama could squeeze something out of the credit card companies the way the [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Yes, the Old Soldier has a new short short story for all you flash fiction readers out there to read today. But first I’d like to do a little blogging… It’s a beautiful, sunny 78 degrees in Pittsburgh. Even though I can still see the Cathedral of Learning of the University of Pittsburgh from one of my [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2009 by pittsburghflashfictiongazette
Hello, it’s the Old Soldier here again. Today we are blogging in Pittsburgh on a sunny, 60 degree day. The rest of the week will be sunny in the high 70s to low 80s. Yes indeed that’s my kind of weather in my kind of town… Can you believe the Pirates are playing 600 baseball ( [...]
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