New Posting Schedule

I'm going to try something new. I realize that I have certain kinds of posts that I already publish on certain days of the week. Expect an Uncounted prod every Monday, I have been habitually putting my cartoons out there on Saturday. I think I'm going to turn this into a bonafide schedule. It ensures …

Snippet Flash Fiction (3 reads for 1 click)

We had two takers on my Snippets challenge on Tuesday. One was in the comments of the post, I'll copy that below.  Gwen over at Apprentice, Never Master joined in. I reblogged it yesterday, but I'm linking here in case you missed it. “Oh,” Zain murmured. He took a deep breath. “This should be good.” I …

Snippets a.k.a “Beware of things named for soup”

Sometimes I find random notes to myself that make no sense but are still neat. I like them. I hate to lose them. I have no idea if they were poetry, to-dos or story ideas. They are just... snippets. Anyone care to take one of these on as a story prompt? If you do, I …

Random Flash Friday Entry

If you've never seen it before, visit Flash! Friday and take a look around. Each Friday,  I check out the images, and each Friday I get too swamped to be able to respond to the challenge. Last week, I finally managed to enter.  Below is last week's image and the short-short story I scribbled in …

The Flower Girl — A wedding gift

This flash fiction story is my entry into the Dark Fairy Queen Writerly Bridal Shower - an ebook project in honor of the Dark Fairy Queen's pending nuptials.   I am inspired by a photo taken of a guest at my own wedding, so I'm including the image below. Title: The Flower Girl Author: A.K. …

Flash fiction: Secrets

In my effort to curb my social media habits, I've given myself a little grab-bag of crazy things to do instead of checking Twit-book-mail-trest and getting lost in the vortex.   One of the slips of paper I pulled the other day had a sentence, and it said "5 minutes: Go."   The sentence in …