I stood rejected at the gates of hell. Who knew you needed an invitation? (S. Bosco)
A couple of months ago I finally caved and got a Twitter account. Because mostly everything in my world revolves around some kind of writing, mainly fiction, I thought, Wouldn't it be great to write some 140-character flash fiction? I'll bet no one else has thought of that, right? Well, wrong. Lots of people have thought of it.
When I wrote a Daily Loaf post about short Twitter fiction last month, the Twitter flash fiction writers crawled out of the woodwork. So I'm going to share a few examples here:
Ben White, midnightstories, writes one piece each night at midnight. He's a really disciplined guy and actually keeps to his schedule. Here are a few of my favorites:
I feel my bed writhing as I wake up. I panic, then realize that my VR gear is still on. Exhale — fell asleep trying to ignore the war again.
As an immortal, I was always frightened of being buried alive. But it is worse now: they installed an LCD screen playing reality TV in mine.
This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2009.