Tag: Short Story
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What the Fire Consumed
A member of a writer’s group I’ve been attending suggested we all write a 140-character short story for Thaumatrope. For those who don’t know about it, Thaumatrope is a Twitter-based magazine of flash fiction. The character limit for Twitter is 140, thus, the guidelines. You can check them out at http://thaumatrope.greententacles.com. I wrote a stor,…
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Thousands Died This Morning
I wrote this short story several years ago as an experiment with second-person viewpoint and a more lyrical prose style. I thought I would post it since it took place on Sept. 11 and the tenth anniversary is coming up. The concept was that while 9/11 was a great tragedy, individual tragedies continued to occur, …