Once again I’m a day and a half late posting my Flashfic Friday update, but I have something special for you: a fantastic Guide to Golems, including discussions of their creation, education and care. It’s filed under Essays because it’s 100% true.
New Essay!
Check it out: A Guide to Golems
The new short-short-short flash fiction piece is up now. Sorry about the late update!
Check it out: Abducted
Today’s flash fiction piece is actually a photocomic, which started out as a hand-made zine created at a Valentine’s Day Zine-Making Workshop at the library. Click on the image below to read the whole thing!
It’s time for the new and improved Flashfic Friday, where I post something short and sweet (and, knowing me, probably gory and disturbing) every Friday, and you let me know what you think.
So here’s the first installment!
Flashfic Friday: Mom and Dad will save us
It is about being at home alone, or something.
Things have changed a bit around Alone and Unobserved.
First: As you can see if you are viewing this at aloneandunobserved.com on a regular computer, Alone and Unobserved has a new theme. I was tired of wrestling with the Sandbox theme, which was crippled in several respects and—I am convinced—was coded by drunk insane people. (Sorry to the Sandbox dev team, but… yeah.)
Second: If you view this blog on an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll notice yet another theme, this one optimized for viewing on one of those devices.
Third: Because of the change in themes, comments are now showing up where they are supposed to. So if you commented on my recent ten-minute fiction piece, your comment should now be visible! Yayz!
Fourth: Google has verified my ownership of this blog and I now have a blog-specific email address, sean@aloneandunobserved.com, which you can always find on the About Me page. You can use it to send me feedback, but please do not sell it to spammers.
Fifth, and finally: I’m going to try and start writing more, and to motivate me in that direction I am resurrecting the Flash Fiction of the Week feature. Expect the next installment this Friday.
Er, that is all for now.
Twitter seems to be bringing me a lot of good things lately, and today it brought me the link to Write or Die, an online writing motivation tool designed by a truly evil-minded person who goes by the name of Dr. Wicked.
The premise: writers often find it hard to motivate themselves to write unless there is a pressing, immediate consequence theatening. Write or Die provides that consequence! Just enter the desired word count and time limit, choose how diabolically evil you want the program to be, and then start writing in the text box provided!
You WILL write—or face the consequences!
Well, I did write, for ten whole minutes, and this bit of silliness is what came of it:
And so there I was — 309 words in 9 minutes, 55 seconds
As usual, feel free to let me know how much you love it/how much it sucks in the comments.
I may be incommunicado for the next few days, so I’ll just leave you with a short scene I wrote a few weeks ago and never got around to doing anything with.
I don’t like losing control, for any reason. But sometimes it’s helpful, even necessary.
A few months ago, a friend made the mistake of wondering in my hearing what his life would have been like if he had been born into a different family. So I told him! (Moral: don’t hypothesize around a writer, unless you want to hear a detailed story with that premise.) And now I’ve pared that story down to a flash-fiction piece.
“Kiss“
FlashFic, 582 words
[One note: a "bishop" is the head of a local Mormon congregation and is considered responsible for the local members' spiritual welfare.]
A rare visual treat for you guys today. I was playing around with the new Facebook “Graffiti” application and ended up drawing a strange little picture on one of my friends’ profiles. Then I opened up The Gimp and reproduced it in lush, layered Gimp-O-Vision. Both versions are reproduced below.
Who are the stick people? Why do they not flee the tree’s vicinity altogether? What happened to the river/pond/lake in the second version? We’ll probably never know for sure.
Yet another installment of FlashFic of the Week, starring this IWW exercise.
“Visitation Rights“
FlashFic, 283 words
Published May 27, 2007
I know you’ve heard a lot about Montréal lately, and I’m sorry. But for some reason, Laurie was dead set on having poutine, and I couldn’t convince her otherwise.
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