Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged Arts, Chevrolet, dog, E-zines, Fiction, flash fiction, gas, gas station, Online Writing, Oregon, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, overalls, pump, W. W. Norton & Company on January 14| 1 Comment »
out in Six Minute Magazine, Winter 2012 edition
This one was inspired by a guy and his dog near some Oregon dunes, as was “View from a ’77 Chevy Scottsdale” (in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, W. W. Norton and Company).
Six Minute Magazine is “a print and electronic magazine…[containing] quality fiction that can be read in under six minutes.”
Posted in News, Published Fiction, Published Poetry, tagged American Short Fiction, Arts, arts funding, Fiction, God, Organizations, publish, publishing Industry, rock star, stage, Writer, Writer Resources, writing on December 24| Leave a Comment »
Say it will be so…
Despite slashes to arts funding and a rapidly changing publishing industry, an email this morning relit my hope for fiction writers. According to American Short Fiction:
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:13:19 -0500
To: me
From: them
Subject: Writers are the next rock gods
…Maybe you’re OK with a world where there’s a widening disconnection from art and people feel powerless to stop that. We’re not. We don’t want to talk about whether fiction is dying, we want to show you how deeply it’s thriving…
Sincerely,
The Editors
I believe! And, I want to shout it to the world, as you can see. I promise to work on the outfit before I hit a stage anywhere though. Until then, pay American Short Fiction a visit. They really are pretty awesome.
Three cheers for the future rock gods–writers!
~ N
Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged Arts, authors, Battered Suitcase, books, contest, echook digital publishing, flash fiction, Holidays, hummingbird, non-fiction, Opinions, rats, Short Stories, snow, stories, thanksgiving, vagabondage press, Valentines Day on December 9| 2 Comments »
“Author Insides” Interview
A snippet from the interview—
“I…have probably saved a ridiculous amount on therapy because I write. It’s very freeing—I can floor it the wrong way on the freeway, say good riddance to people I’d like to, or cut a finger off, and it’s all harmless. As well, though, I have found compassion for others I might not have understood if I hadn’t examined a character as deeply as you must to be able to slip into their skin.”
~ N on the Vagabondage Press Blog
Read “Nineteen Degrees,” a story about what it was like to have held a hummingbird.
“…I close the towel around her, cupping her in my hands. She is so light, like a penny, and each time she stirs it is so faint, like moth wings…”
~ published in the August 2011 Issue of The Battered Suitcase from Vagabondage Press and an honoree in the eChook Digital Publishing 2011 ‘Tis the Season Competition
Watch for two poems in Love Notes from Vagabondage Press, out just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged echook digital publishing, flash fiction, hummingbird, non-fiction, snow, thanksgiving, turkey, vagabondage press, winter on December 7| Leave a Comment »
Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged college, Fiction, flash fiction, harvard, lay, life, Literature, microfiction, recycling, Safety pin, Short story, student, WECI radio on December 6| Leave a Comment »
A Class of ’08 Alumna on 7-1-11
has gone live with Safety Pin Review
See it attached to the back of a Harvard student who wears it everywhere he goes for a week.
Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged arachnid, beginning, bible, death, existence, Fiction, flash fiction, fly, genesis, life, Literature, Short story, spider on December 2| Leave a Comment »
In the beginning, The Arachnid spun its web from the void, in the deep darkness that was upon the face of the heavens, and the winds moved upon its web.
And the winds brought forth the first fly to The Arachnid’s web, causing the fly to become ensnared.
And The Arachnid felt the fly’s movement upon the face of its web and was drawn to the fly.
And The Arachnid crept along its web, descended upon the fly and called what it found there Life… <<read more>>
~ Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction Horror, Dark Moon Books,
available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other retailers
Posted in News, Published Fiction, tagged Arts, August, babysitting, birth defect, cotton candy, fair, Ferris, Ferris wheel, Fiction, flash fiction, Literature, parents, Short story, siblings, snow cone, summer on November 10| 2 Comments »
August limps past the Ferris wheel, a cotton candy wisp stuck to her cheek. She stops, licks her dusty lips with a snow cone-blue tongue while deciding how to spend her sister Summer’s last dollar bill… <<read more>>
~ Microfiction Spotlight: November 9th through 15th, 2011, Microstory A Week
WordLoft by Natalie McNabb 