I've been writing the monthly audio column in Game Developer Magazine for about 4 years now. As enjoyable as it's been, I miss writing fiction. It's something I used to do quite often in my teens and early twenties. But life and work marched along and I slipped out of the habit of writing short fiction.
By the way, the first short story I wrote was in Mr. Fiorini's typing class. I was supposed to be typing:
A lad, a lass, and alack
A lad, a lass, and alack
but Seth and I decided to write stories instead. I think mine were always about my D&D character...
Anyway, flash forward 20 years and i've been itching to get back into it. I decided to start small. Flash Fiction, for those unfamiliar with it, is very short short stories, in a nutshell. I don't know where the dividing line is in terms of word count between flash fiction and short stories, but I set a goal for myself of trying to write a story with plot, setting, characterization, and development in 500 words. I then submitted it to a new online flash fiction journal called YesterYearFiction.com, and it was selected for publication.
Long story short, you can find my first piece of flash fiction here. Actually, I think this blog post is longer than the story itself...
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Mr. Fiorini! Ha. I haven't thought of that in years, but while you were writing about D&D or whatever, I was writing about Mr. Jeffries the Horny Monkey and his best friend, Harry the Bearded Tit! Jesus Christ, I even bought a stuffed monkey that I dubbed Mr. Jeffries, and he used to molest people on the band bus when they yawned (yawns where his mating call, y'see?).
Anyway, congrats - off to read your mini-story.
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