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On Why I Write Flash Fiction

Why not read some of my works? “Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.” — Ernest Hemmingway People often ask me why I write Flash Fiction. Surprisingly, some of my readers fail to understand most such works. At first I thought this [...]

Wil Wheaton: “The Monster in my Closet” It seems a lot of inspiration and knowledge alik


Wil Wheaton: “The Monster in my Closet” It seems a lot of inspiration and knowledge alik

    IQ comes with strings attached

    Eddie Rodriguez, for Cracked.com, wrote an amusing, yet interesting, article titled 5 Unexpected Downsides of Intelligence. It was interesting, but you know how cracked.com articles can be: playfully funny at first look, with some reading between the lines heavily demanded. So I decided to examine the five traits in a more–perhaps the best way to [...]

    Extracts from the Cynic’s Wordbook – Part VII – the letter S

    Also see letters P, M, K, C, J and R. Sabbath - noun An unknown quantity in San Francisco social life. Sacerdotalist - noun One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Sacred - noun Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; as the Dalai Lama of Tibet; the Moogum of M’bwango; the Cow in India; the hair of [...]

    Five things that will make your short story riveting

    On a website, you have about ten seconds (maximum) to make an impression on your visitor that will decide whether they stay or not. In a short story, as far as my experience is concerned, it is just the first sentence. Simple as they may seem, short stories are as complicated and as challenging to [...]

    (What appears to be) a very serious treatise on the criminal

    The criminal of yesterday is very different from the criminal of today. He walked free like the innocent of today while the criminal of today found himself freely strolling through his prison cell like the innocent man of yesterday. While the police are promptly imprisoning more men to convince the public that they are working, [...]

    Because death never strikes twice—a short story

    The first time that I heard the mellifluous notes of the violin waft through the air, I felt a cold chill run down my spine. Nobody was supposed to be around. The real estate man told me the place was uninhabited at least up to a radius of a couple of miles. And violin notes [...]

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