It’s an overcast, warm day this Sunday in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Marathon is today. No, I won’t be running in the marathon but I may go out and cheer the other runners on. Well, it’s been quite a week with the oil spill and the new immigration law in Arizona. Oh, I forgot Goldman Sachs. The head of Goldman Sachs was on Charlie Rose a couple of nights ago. I didn’t even want to hear what the man had to say. He keeps his millions while millions of Americans have their 401Ks and pensions wiped out because of what his company and other companies on Wall Street did in swindling investors out of their money. It was their own investors. There’s no way of getting around it no matter what sort of spin the Wall Street firms put on their business dealings…
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But we bloggers and writers of flash fiction have other things on our mind.
I don’t know how other writers create their characters but I get mine from real life. I’ve used my mother, father, brothers and sisters; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law in my fiction. I’ve used my niece. I’ ve used old girlfriends and army buddies. I’ve used strangers I’ve met, classmates and people in crowds that I’ve seen in the city. And most of all I’ve used myself.
Now this doesn’t mean I don’t make things up. I write fiction. What it does mean is that I don’t make everything up.
It’s easier that way.
How do you create your characters?
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Flash Fiction: A Wife Gives Head And Swallows
The marathon was today. Sunday. In Pittsburgh. A warm but overcast day. Part of the Pittsburgh Marathon went through Bloomfield, Pittsburgh’s “Little Italy” which is right next door to the neighborhood I live in which is Oakland where the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh is located. So, I decided to go and get myself a 40.oz bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer to wash down my lima beans and ham.
It was around 2:20 pm when I hit Edmond Street and Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield. The runners were still running. Being a flash fiction writer and a blogger I stopped and watched the race for a while. A stage was set up in front of the Starbucks Coffee Shop. A band played a Doobie Brothers song. I forget which one.
I walked across Liberty Avenue to Armand’s and got my 40 of Pabst and walked back to my apartment…
For some reason that little outing brought to mind one of the flash fiction stories that’s in the sidebar on the right. We all know that girlfriends and wives perform head on their men to get them off. That’s what the flash fiction story Nude Conversation is about.
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