Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

What a year this has been for the City of Pittsburgh: The Steelers win the Superbowl; the city is named the most livable city in the United States by The Economist; President Obama picks the city to host the G-20 meeting in September and now the Penguins win the Stanley Cup.  And to boot, the after game victory celebrations in the city were energetic but not destructive.  “Well I love that dirty water/Because Pitt-Pitt-Pittsburgh is my home”.  Well, enough of that silliness.  What’s in the news for today?

Hemingway is still having an impact on American fiction to this day.  For all you new and aspiring writers out there (and for all you interested readers) here are 10 Things to Learn About Writing Fiction From Hemingway…

By far, the two most popular stories in the Gazette are Girls Gone Wild and Girls Kissing Girls.  Both are about young women attending the University of Pittsburgh…

The page of the Gazette has been changed from five postings to eight because the stories and articles in the sidebar on the right are getting too long and the page looked unbalanced.  So now there are eight postings on the page and this will probably change as more stories and articles are added…

This month the Gazette hit 12,000 page views.  I’d like to thank all the bloggers, readers and writers that made this possible…

Well, it’ll around 11:00 a.m. in Pittsburgh and it’s time for the Old Soldier to take his walk down to the Carnegie Library to exchange movie video tapes.  Last night I watched Farewell My Lovely starring Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling and Black Angel with Dan Duryea, June Vicent, Peter Lorre and Broderick Crawford.  After I exchange the tapes I’ll continue my walk through Schenley Park and pick up a couple of ice cream bars to eat on the way home.  That will be a pretty good walk.

The sun is shinning and it’s a warm, beautiful day.  So, I’ll be back when I get back to do some more blogging.  In the mean time you’ll find plenty of articles on writing in the sidebar on the right and just above the articles you’ll find some of the best flash fiction stories on the Internet for your reading pleasure.  And it’s all free.

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