Category: flash fiction

Feast your eyes on these recent publications

Nibble on these morsels published recently in The Argyle Literary Magazine’s “gastronomy” issue

Earlier this month, a couple of my pieces were published in The Argyle Literary Magazine‘s special “gastronomy” issue. As the title of this themed issue makes clear, the stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces of this issue all have something to do with cooking or eating food.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my contributions, which are companion pieces of a sort:

I hope you’ll also take the time to feast on some of the other delicious writings in this special issue and read more from The Argyle‘s previous issues.

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A boring realist’s thoughts on keeping it real

Why verisimilitude matters in all forms of fiction (with examples)

Note: If you don’t want to wade through this entire post, feel free to go directly to the examples near the end of this post. – AC

I was reviewing some early chapters of a work in progress recently when I discovered a problem with the text that–while perhaps insignificant to the overarching plot–could ruin the story’s credibility and my credibility as a writer if I didn’t fix it.

The novel is set in the early 1980s, and music plays a significant role in it. In one early chapter, I reference a song that, when I was writing the chapter, I was certain was ubiquitous on FM radio during the time frame of this portion of the novel. But as often happens when I rely on my increasingly foggy memory, I did not remember correctly.

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