In Which I Nano Like It's 1999

I've been extremely busy this past week, which is why it's been awfully quiet around this here part of cyberspace, but I have a new hint fiction piece up today at the ultra-fine Nanoism.

Edited by Ben White, the journal is a "place for twitter-fiction," which means 99.9% of the time, the story can't play off a title like it would with a regular hint fiction piece because, well, Twitter doesn't allow such things.

So my piece doesn't have a title, but if I did have to title it (which I will), I would call it "Against the Sun."

Anyway, you can check that out here.

Enjoy your weekend.

In Which I Am Interviewed By MSNBC

Months back I'd mentioned how someone from MSNBC contacted me about Hint Fiction. Well, I eventually went down to D.C., did the interview, and came back. Hadn't heard anything for awhile, but now it's live. The segment -- it's not too long, only about two and a half minutes -- also features David Erlewine and J.S. Graustein. My thanks to David for bringing up my name initially, and to Ali Weinberg for all her hard work. Now check it out, why don't you?

My One Lonely Stitch ...

... is now live at Fifty-Two Stitches, which publishes one horror flash fiction piece a week. My story "Dead Weight" can be found here. It can also be found in the annual anthology edited by Aaron Polson, along with fifty-one other stitches. Wanna win a free signed copy? Sure you do. First go read the story and then come back and see below.

Okay, so that creature in the cabin? It doesn't have a name, and it really wants a name. So to appease its vicious hunger, in the comments section leave the name you think it would like best. I'll keep this mini-contest open until Friday, October 16 at midnight here on the east coast, when I'll pick a random winner.

New Keyhole Digest Up

And it includes stuff by Roxane Gay, Lauren Becker, Joe Young, Ethel Rohan, Kevin Catalano, Matthew Savoca, and some guy named Robert Swartwood. The idea behind the digest is that it can easily be printed out, folded, and passed out all over the neighborhood. So make sure you make 100 copies and go to the mall and plaster people's windshields with them like they're menus for a new Chinese restaurant.

Have You Heard The One About Two Bank Robbers?

Issue 2 of 10Flash Quarterly has gone live. The journal is writer K.C. Ball's brainchild, 10 (well, 11) flash fiction pieces published every three months around a common theme. The theme this time around is two people, one of them wounded, on the run following a botched bank robbery.

What's neat is that writers can take the theme in any direction they'd like, in any genre: suspense, horror, fantasy, science fiction, etc. Check out the guidelines for the themes for upcoming issues; they are broad enough that, if your story isn't accepted, you aren't left with an unsellable story (unlike, say, a theme about a tryst between the Lucky Charms leprechaun and the Trix rabbit). Plus, it's a paying market!

Anyway, my suspense story "Two of a Kind," can be found here. Enjoy.