Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

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Yes, the Old Soldier taught flash fiction writing to undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh from 2005 to 2006.  I was a graduate student on a K. LeRoy Irvis Fellowship.

Flash fiction was new to most of my students.  Most of them did not want to be writers.  They just needed a writing credit.  Several of my students turned out to be very talented writers.

I gave my students three parameters to write their very short stories by.

• Use specific concrete sense details
• No unnecessary words
• Each character must have his or her own agenda

These parameters still hold true for any creative writer who wants to write flash fiction.

For the best in “show don’t tell” erotica, click on the Sexy Stories tab at the top of the page.

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