Tag: short story

A new home for ‘Baseball 1971’

Thank you, Bulb culture Collective

In publication news, I’m thrilled that a flash fiction I wrote back in the ‘90s has found a new home! The story, “Baseball 1971,” was published this week in the on line literary magazine Bulb Culture Collective. The site specializes in publishing works that were published previously in journals that no longer exist. That is the case with this story, which originally appeared in Fan in 1998 (backstory here).

Many thanks to the folks at Bulb Culture Collective for selecting this for their Shine A Light series of writings.

Follow the journal on Twitter (I mean X) at @BulbCultCo.

Image via Bulb Culture Collective.

Friday Five: fabulous flash

Five great stories I’ve read recently.

As I continue to work on my writing — as I try to learn how to make my writing more compact and forcible — I’ve been paying greater attention to flash fiction lately.

I love how flash fiction writer and editor Tommy Dean describes the genre in a recent Friday Five Q&A on this site. Flash, he says, is “the flash bulb and the reaction in the dark, the scene coming in and out of focus, before being lost.”

I think these five recent flash stories capture that sentiment well. Enjoy.

  1. “Grief and Gravity,” by Barlow Adams (@BarlowAdams on Twitter/X) in The Molotov Cocktail.
  2. “Baby,” by L Mari Harris in Ghost Parachute. She’s on Twitter/X as @LMariHarris. Also check her website for more of her writings.
  3. “Side A: Violent Femmes,” by Sabrina Hicks in Roi Fainéant Press. Find her on Twitter/X at @desertdwellera3 or at her website.
  4. Another from Roi Fainéant Press: “Bon Appétit” by Grace Black. Her nom de Twitter/X is @graceblackink, and she too has a website.
  5. A bit of punk noir from Casey Stegman (@cstegman on Twitter/X): “Watch It All Burn,” in Punk Noir Magazine. Read more of his stuff on his website.

Have a good weekend.

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