Monday, May 10, 2010

And, my first public success in the microfiction field...

My first submission to the PicFic blog and Twitter feed has been accepted! PicFic is one of the main sources of Twitter-compatible 140-character fiction.

They were always watching us

First kill

"Hold your breath, and pull the trigger," his father said. The trophy convict gripped the cage bars, his eyes pleading, as Bobby fired.

Fiction in small packages

Lately I've gotten interested in the evolving world of very short fiction, such as flash, usually defined as complete stories of 1000 words or under. A further evolution, fiction compressed to haiku length, is the growing world of Twitter stories: complete or implied stories with a maximum length of 140 characters.

I've decided to start posting flash and Twitter stories on this long-dormant blog,as my next step in my exploration of self-publication, which reached critical mass last month with the publication of Ten Dragons: a chapbook for Amazon Kindle.