Flashes of Speculation has been awake again for less than 24 hours, and already I’m very happy with things. I’ve had a handful of past contributors declare their excitement at its revival, and I’ve had three new stories posted already, accomplished through new registrations and stories submitted for review. That system already seems to work [...]
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Callout for Flash Fiction Stories
With the Flashes of Speculation redesign complete, I’m putting the callout again for submissions. If you write science fiction, fantasy, or horror and are looking for an outlet for your writing, then please consider Flashes of Speculation. Stories need to be 1000 words or less.
FoS could use a little promotion, as well. If you’re a contributing [...]
Reviving Flashes
I really would like to get Flashes of Speculation into a much more active status – more submissions coming in, more interaction from readers (both on the site itself and on the discussion board I’ve created for it), more of everything that will launch it more into the public eye. Unfortunately, though, marketing has never been a [...]
Another FS Update
In case folks missed it, Flashes of Speculation got another update yesterday. Four new stories got posted up, so go give ‘em a read and leave some comments and feedback for the authors.
FS is always taking submissions, as well, so if anyone has any speculative fiction stories under 1000 words, feel free to send them my [...]
Weird How That Works Out
A entry on another blog yesterday led me on a merry trail to this Newspaper Clipping Generator. That, in turn, served as the inspiration for a 387-word piece of flash fiction that I intend to use for the 100 Voices in the Night project. It’s kind of funny how it worked out because when the [...]
Speculative Flash Fiction, Redux
For any who haven’t checked it in a while, Flashes of Speculation is still in business, and we’ve actually had a small influx of new content recently. So please feel free to stop by – read, comment, subscribe, whatever suits your fancy. And if speculative fiction is your particular cuppa tea, check out the submissions page and [...]
Of Mice and Men
Well, what was planned to be a productive writing day turned out to be not so much. My niece was born this morning, and so I had charge of my nephew for the day while his parents were at the hospital bringing his little sister into the world. My plans had been to put him [...]
The Doors Close
It’s sad, really – Flashing in the Gutters has decided to close its doors. I can understand, though, why Tribe might not find it fun anymore. It requires quite a lot of work to maintain a flash fiction site, especially when you get a lot of submissions all at once. Plus promoting such a site and soliciting [...]
Podcast
I’ve been considering the idea of recording some of the flash fiction stories I’ve written and podcasting them – y’know, just a little something to further exercise my inner geek. It would require, of course, that I purchase a suitable microphone, but I already have the necessary software.1
Is this something anyone might be interested in?
Six-Word Science Fiction
Here’s mine:
“Our plan to save humanity failed.”
“Warp technology perfected. Found ourselves lost.”
“Moved through timed. Neighborhood still sucks.”
“He died at her hands. Again.”
Your turn.