Woman As Art
Every artist has his or her medium: film, ceramics, photography, the novel, poetry, painting, sculpture, weaving and glass; the list is endless.
The Old Soldier would like to add flash fiction to the list.
You will find plenty of examples of this assertion on this blog. The Old Soldier is not saying that every flash fiction story on this blog is a work of art. What I am saying is that as an art form, the flash fiction story can provide the transcendent experience that every work of art contributes to our understanding of our own humanity.
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Why Do We Read Flash Fiction Stories?
Hello my brother and sister bloggers and writers. The Old Soldier is here with another issue of the Gazette, your one stop website for stories, commentaries and articles about blogging and writing flash fiction.
Veteran bloggers and writers will find some good content here, too; but the Gazette may for especially helpful to new bloggers and writers.
You will find all sorts of links to articles on blogging and writing and links to the best flash fiction on the Internet.
And this resource doesn’t cost you a dime. Take a moment to subscribe or read the guidelines and submit a short story. Just click on the appropriate tabs at the top of the page. Tell your friends about the Gazette.
The Gazette is here for you.
I know there are a lot of articles about writing flash fiction; but why do we read flash fiction?
I think short stories are a way for humanity to keep an informal record of itself. We want to know where we have been and maybe where we might be going; this helps to give us some sense of control over our destiny. But things are pretty crazy now. Events overwhelm us. We suffer from information overload. So many things should have been done yesterday; but we still need our short stories. They help keep us sane, human. It’s just that now there’s even less time for reading stories then there was twenty years ago. And we still want our stories to tell us something about the human condition even if it’s something small. Stories still must have a protagonist and something must be at stake; and something must be different at the end.
This is why we read flash fiction. This is why it’s a great time to write flash fiction.
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