TotenFolio

I see them come and go every single day that I sit here in this booth at this seedy little bar. Guys, you know the ones, that come in and think they’re going to redefine what it is to be a criminal. These young morons come in off the streets having seen one too many crime movies, mob movies, cop movies, and now they think they understand how this world works. They think they understand what it is to pull a trigger and blow a man’s life away. » Read the rest of this entry «

Phillip’s heart hammered in his chest as he sat at the table, surrounded on all sides by observing clergymen. Even over the sound of rushing blood in his ears, he could hear their whispers and musings that they dared speak aloud while they all waited for the Minister.
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“You ever get that feeling? You know. That itch, the strange little catch you get in your brain when you look at someone in a public place, and you know for a fact that they’ve just looked away from you a microsecond before you looked in their direction.

Yeah. I get that feeling a lot.”

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The world pitched and rolled beneath Edgar Snatch as he walked toward the narrow trees at the edge of the forest. He could feel Laura’s eyes on him, and rather than the glee he’d had moments before, he felt a deep dread seated in his stomach.

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Snatch opened his eyes and prepared to answer the Question Queen’s questions, but his eyes opened to a different setting than the one he expected.

His hands were cuffed and he sat in the rear seat of Laura’s squad car. He peered through the divider and sucked his bottom lip into his mouth, between his teeth.

Laura drove in silence.

“What’s going on?” Snatch asked. His voice dragged itself through the muggy humidity of the thick air in the police car.

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It’s been a while since I posted something to this blog of mine. In the time since my previous post, I haven’t had very much time to write or work. Slowly, I’m immersing myself back into a schedule of healthy freelancing and writing on my own projects. I want to take a moment to share with you my two newest stories. They are flash fiction written for the Twitter #FridayFlash group.

Cubicles and Brimstone

“My greatest weakness? Uh, I’ve been known to be quite stubborn, to the point of clashing with upper management.”

“Oh?” Mr. Moulton asked. He slipped a pair of reading glasses from his jacket pocket and leaned the spectacles carefully against his nose, so he could look over the simple one-page resume.

Continue reading Cubicles and Brimstone.

Spasms

The ring finger on Isaac’s left hand twitched for the third time in a day which concerned him greatly. He stared down at his hand and watched the finger for a short period. No spasm ran through his hand while he was watching, but he was sure that the tiny hairs right above his second knuckle were brimming with excitement. He  squeezed his eyes shut, wrote the movements off as his imagination, and returned to his work.

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Over the coming weeks, I plan to retool this blog and bring the primary focus to my fiction.

I regularly exercise my creative muscles with short flash fiction written specifically for the #fridayflash Twitter group. Here are the last three stories written, from my flash fiction blog, Telling Creative Lies.

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I’m going to go ahead and admit that I love my computer. I use it for everything. Email, graphic design, television shows and writing. Everything that I do, I depend on my desktop or one of the several laptops I have at my disposal.

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Twitter is a great place to connect and interact with a fantastic community of writers. You have the #fridayflash crowd, the #tuesdayserial Tweeps and the #amwriting hashtag to name a few. All of these talented writers produce great work, maintain interesting blogs and actively engage in writing communities across the web. With so many writers on Twitter, there’s a wealth of information, news and encouragement, all in bite-sized nuggets of 140 characters or less. I recently asked Twitter writers to share their Twitter sized writing advice with me, and now I’m going to pass it on to you.

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The Twitter #fridayflash group allows you to post links to your flash fiction and add those flash fiction pieces to J.M. Strother’s collector to be included in his weekly Friday flash reports. Not only do you get great feedback on your stories every week, the group encourages constant inspiration and allows you to discover great flash from other talented writers.

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