Characters Wanted!
Writers have to get their characters from somewhere. Sometimes it's just not as simple as making them up.
Writers have to get their characters from somewhere. Sometimes it's just not as simple as making them up.
A young woman is waiting in an underground station. A young man sits down next to her, and proceeds to tell her everything about her life - the tragic, the heartwarming, the amazing, the catastrophic. What on earth is he? Angel, ghost, or something else?
Several years ago, a brilliant but short-lived webzine titled Flashing in the Gutters featured crime fiction in the form of short-short stories—also known as “flash fiction.” This was the first story I published with them. (“Mind Your Own Business” copyright 2006, originally appeared on the blog Flashing in the Gutter...
Jellybean is a clumsy dragon. As a matter of fact, all dragons are clumsy. So when Jellybean falls from the sky and lands in front of Emma, a 10 year-old astronaut, naturally a series of calamitous events occur forcing Emma to eventually leave her land and meet more clumsy dragons. However, Emma is not only patient, s...