If you want to know how to write flash fiction, read some advice compiled from aficionados of this most versatile of forms. Let your title do some of the work, but don’t give away the story resolution with it either. Thirteen Tips for Writing Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Online Perhaps the greatest asset for a […]
Three-Shot Induction
Eight months and one week is a long time to go without caffeine, but I did it for the baby, assuming Elijah or Dahlia would be calmer and healthier without my favorite stimulant. But I couldn’t last the full gestation. That humid August Friday, a storm looming in the east, I could bear it no […]
Then It Was Autumn Again
In Paris, they don’t catch falling leaves in autumn like people in England do. Well, the people outside the shop on the Boulevard Haussmann certainly didn’t. They looked at us as though we were mad, dancing under the branches, our arms flailing. ‘Les Anglais – fous!’ we heard them say. I don’t know how they […]