Blogs: Flash Fiction

A day late and a dollar short, but here’s a 100 word piece that I wrote some time ago. Send me your 100 word stories: flashfiction@sacurrent.com. The Hangover Ham by Lyle Rosdahl The ham he had laid out the night before was gone. He had been on a bender and always craved ham the...
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Raising children, I can imagine, is always a task. But being a child is no better (or worse). Clarence Darrow’s penetrating (and obfuscating) quote wraps it up nicely: “The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.” Of course if that were entirely true, it...
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Nothing is quite so existential as the what-could-have-beens. Some people suffer far more from them than others but they are the solid trail of crumbs that lead us back into the haze of the past. Send in your flash: 500 wordsish. Celebrate the cold weather. Or revile it. Write. Flashfiction@sacurrent.com. —Lyle Rosdahl Father and...
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Alas, no flash fiction this week. Submissions have slowed to a trickle. And not the good kind of trickle, which a flash fiction can mimic. I should have something for next week, though. Stay tuned. In the meantime: send in your submissions to flashfiction@sacurrent.com. I’m looking for approximately 500-word stories. That’s about it. I’ll...
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Here’s a piece where time is understood in the fragmentation and uneven flare of car lights passing through a room. Sleepless nights are like that. Significance shifts around and is often locked into one’s head broken only by a creak or a sudden light. Here it appears to be chronic. If you can’t sleep,...
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This is a grim tale indeed. The haunting personifications throughout give the final image a frenetic and deadly power over the story. I think this is the first piece we’ve had that has been set in the grizzly world of gang killings and murder-soldiers that is the Mexico to the south of us (although...
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This is a wonderful Barthelmesque piece about whatever you think it might be about. Tiger sharks make terrible friends (or good ones depending on how you feel about your other friends). More profoundly this is an existential treatise on the nature of responsibility. Maybe that’s pushing it a bit… Submit your work: flashfiction@sacurrent.com. I’m...
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Michael Gallaway takes us through a post-hippie, metafictional romp through the wildflowers reminiscent of Burroughs and Mingus, Ah Um! Think of it as a cross hatching of movies and words and music. As a hallucinating preponderance. Think of it how you like. Or don’t. Read it anyway. Think of how you like it. Still...
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The Current’s own Laura Carter is this weeks flash fiction author (check out her SA Current blog here). A slice of life turns into an epiphany. This is a now-I-understand moment: cliche is given new life in the story. Read on and submit: flashfiction@sacurrent.com. I’m still looking for six word stories (or single sentence...
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We all inherit bad genes (and good ones, true, but we don’t seem to get all worked up about those). But we also inherit other horrible and wonderful things from family members (including stories) like dressers and certificates from the first grade. In Ben Tremillo’s “Inheritance” the unnamed character might have inherited a thing...
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On Saturday September, 17th, I’ll be leading a workshop through Gemini Ink about flash fiction. It will consist mostly of writing prompts as ways to get into a flash fiction piece. More exciting is the reading at the beginning of the workshop: Marisela Chavez, Arnulfo Talamantes &  Nicole Provencher. The night before at 6:30...
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The disembodied notion of choice thrusts itself on the character in this short by Serah Brandenn. And while the title is absurd (and sometimes the content too), it’s also a decent question in the grand scheme of questions. So take a gander. Which one would you choose? Really? Submit. Flashfiction@sacurrent.com. There is a poverty...
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