The hot summer wind
Blows through the empty campus
He feels young again
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Hello, everyone! It’s the Old Soldier here feeling nostalgic after a nice long walk earlier this afternoon through the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.
The campus was like a ghost town. Well, school is out for the summer and it is Saturday and it is the Memorial Day weekend. And Memorial Day brings back memories, too, for the Old Soldier, of a nineteen-year-old kid on his way to the Vietnam War.
English: University of Pittsburgh. Cathedral of Learning in the background (center, Heinz Memorial Chapel to the left). This photo is edited from the original by Piotrus. Original photo available here: :Image:University of Pittsburgh tablet.jpg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
But that’s all behind me. Now I’m retired and the editor/publisher of the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette. And if you like my little blog, why don’t you click the follow button so that you won’t miss a single issue of the most dynamic flash fiction magazine on the Internet.
Read. Study. Write. Submit.
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This Flash Fiction Writing Workshop Is Free
The Old Soldier is doing great. It’s warm and sunny in Pittsburgh and the blogging day has begun. The Old Soldier is on duty and it’s not even 10:00 a.m. yet. Retirement can make you lazy; but I’m not going to let that happen. I’ve got a magazine to publish.
The Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is a magazine published by a flash fiction writer for other flash fiction writers.
Because of the Internet, the popularity of flash fiction has exploded. And the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette is part of that explosion. For a while there, online writing workshops were very popular. Many of these workshops charged a fee; but you don’t need to pay a fee to learn how to write flash fiction. You just have to be able to read.
underword: flash fiction (Photo credit: piglicker)
Take a look at the sidebar on the right. Not only will you find great examples of flash fiction but if you keep strolling down you will find dozens of articles on how to write flash fiction.
Then when you’re ready to submit your story for publication there is a submissions tab at the top of the page. And this magazine is a paying market.
You can’t beat that with a stick!
So, what are you waiting for? Send me something. Oh, if you’re not a writer but you like entertaining reading, you’ll find plenty of that on this site. And that’s free, too.
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Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup I, 1968. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Welcome to everybody from all over the world. Yesterday, the Old Soldier walked to the public library and he picked up some new reading material (to go along with his other library book about Andy Warhol): Spartans (A New History) and a new history of The Peloponnesian War. A writer never stops learning. The Old Soldier can find useful insights about being the editor/publisher of this magazine in everything he reads.
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