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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge | Win Publication | Celebrating Independent Authors via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2YiTkjj Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge | Win Publication | Celebrating Independent Authors via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2ZFakRu Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…
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    Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec… Flash Fiction Writing Prompt Road to Autumn - Indies Unlimited via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2OHYDHD
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    Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec… Flash Fiction Writing Prompt The Hawk - Indies Unlimited via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2EjBK9D
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    Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec… Flash Fiction Writing Prompt Secret of the Cave - Indies Unlimited via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2CXwXJB
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[Fiction issue] 'Snake Story', new short fiction by Henrietta Rose-Innes - The Johannes... - 0 views

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    The JRB presents new short fiction by Contributing Editor Henrietta Rose-Innes. I began to write this Twitter story some months ago, when I was feeling stuck. I've always been a cautious writer, given to much rewriting and second-guessing; also a se…
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    baby, cigarette, class, Elaine Chiew, flash, flash fiction, micro fiction, migrant, nationality, relationships, short stories, short story, vss, writer, writing A Tibetan poet. Not just poet, but also Tibetan. via Pocket
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  • Sunny Jackson on 18 Oct 18
     
    Hi, folks! I'm working on Agents of the Crown, Book 4 (Elven Fury!), but I took a break to write a new novella and a novel in my Fallen Empire science-fiction universe. Except the stories take place before the fall of the empire. And they feature so…
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Naru Dames Sundar writes speculative fiction and poetry. His work has appeared at PodCastle, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons and is forthcoming at Shimmer Magazine. He lives in the redwoods of Northern california. You can find him online at www.shardof… Escape Pod 605 Straight Lines - Escape Pod via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2j3bBC4
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    Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…
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  • I’d already thought about the future, and I knew what it was going to be.
  • The Black Sun
  • Seetee Ship
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  • Grand Master Nebula Award
  • Darker Than You Think
  • Wonder’s Child
  • Carter Stewart
  • Nonstop to Mars
  • Dead Star Station
  • The Metal Man
  • The Legion of Space
  • The Girl from Mars
  • The Meteor Girl
  • Dead Star Station
  • ‘If the field were strong enough,’ he said in the story, ‘we could bring physical objects through space-time instead of mere visual images.’
  • ‘No one can predict the future, he can only point the way.’
  • No cameras. No gift shop. No littering or trespassing or whining. What kind of tour is this?
  • “He predicted ‘a new Golden Age of fair cities, of new laws and new machines,’” Tonia was saying, “‘of human capabilities undreamed of, of a civilization that has conquered matter and Nature, distance and time, disease and death.’”
  • ‘Science is the doorway to the future, scientification, the golden key. It goes ahead and lights the way. And when science sees the things made real in the author’s mind, it makes them real indeed.’
  • Portales is right on the road to nowhere.
  • Jack Williamson
  • Amazing Stories
  • The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson
  • She picked up the book. “The guy who wrote this lives in Portales?” she said. “Really?”
  • But at least now I had something to read. I went back to the Portales Inn and up to my room, opened a can of Coke and all the windows, and sat down to read The Legion of Time, which was about a girl who’d travelled back in time to tell the hero about the future.
  • “The world is a long corridor, and time is a lantern carried steadily along the hall,”
  • “If time were simply an extension of the universe, was tomorrow as real as yesterday? If one could leap forward—”
  • What if that was why she kept pausing when she talked, because she had to remember to say “Jack Williamson is” instead of “Jack Williamson was“, “does most of his writing” instead of “did most of his writing,” had to remember what year it was and what hadn’t happened yet?
  • “‘If the field were strong enough,’” I remembered Tonia saying out at the ranch, “‘we could bring physical objects through space-time instead of mere visual images.’” And the tour group had all smiled.
  • What if they were the physical objects? What if the tour had travelled through time instead of space?
  • The book talked about quantum mechanics and probability, about how changing one thing in the past could affect the whole future. Maybe that was why they had to come when Jack Williamson was out of town, to avoid doing something to him that might change the future.
  • Even if they were tourists from the future, there was no reason to travel back in time to see a science fiction writer when they could see presidents or rock stars. Unless they lived in a future where all the things he’d predicted in his stories had come true. What if they had genetic engineering and androids and spaceships? What if in their world they’d terraformed planets and gone to Mars and explored the galaxy? That would make Jack Williamson their forefather, their founder. And they’d want to come back and see where it all started.
  • “Wow! Lined up and waiting to get in! This is a first,” he said, which answered my first question. I asked it anyway. “Do you get many visitors?”
  • “A few,” he said. “Not as many as I think there should be for a man who practically invented the future. Androids, terraforming, antimatter, he imagined them all. We’ll have more visitors in two weeks. That’s when the Williamson Lectureship week is. We get quite a few visitors then. The writers who are speaking usually drop in.”
  • “Let me show you around,” he said. “We’re adding to the collection all the time.” He took down a long flat box. “This is the comic strip Jack did, Beyond Mars. And here is where we keep his original manuscripts.” He opened one of the filing cabinets and pulled out a sheaf of typed yellow sheets. “Have you ever met Jack?”
  • “Oh, the nicest man you’ve ever met. It’s hard to believe he’s one of the founders of science fiction. He’s in here all the time. Wonderful guy. He’w working on a new book, The Black Sun. He’s out of town this weekend, or I’d take you over and introduce you. He’s always delighted to meet his fans. Is there anything specific you wanted to know about him?”
  • “This person who told me about the drugstore, they mentioned something about Number 5516. Is that one of his books?” “5516? No, that’s the asteroid they’re naming after him. How’d you know about that? It’s supposed to be a surprise. They’re giving him the plaque Lectureship week.” “An asteroid,” I said. I started out again. “Thanks for coming in,” the librarian said. “Are you just visiting or do you live here?” “I live here,” I said.
  • “I know how you felt when you saw that Amazing Stories in the drugstore,” I’d tell him. “I’m interested in the future, too. I liked what you said about it, about science fiction lighting the way and science making the future real.”
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io The first night of the auction, there was a double rainbow. This was after storms blew things across the yard, and the porta potty, there for the next day's auction, fell over. via Pocket Stray Voltage, by Kim Chinquee | Conjunctions - The forum for innovative writing via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Trk9Ah
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Two months into my time as Fred and Elsie's ghost, they wake up in the middle of the night to find me at the kitchen table, staring at the Ouija board unfolded over the unfinished pine. I didn't mean to be staring at the board when they came down th… Haunt, by Carmen Maria Machado | Conjunctions - The forum for innovative writing via Instapaper https://ift.tt/33m1Voq
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io The first time I crossed the equator, I stopped for a photo. People usually do. I had come to work in a small clinic in a coffee-farming village in southwestern Uganda, just to the south of the world's belt. via Pocket Twelve Hours, by Sallie Tisdale | Conjunctions - The forum for innovative writing via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2TpyTzO
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    via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io What they had in common was they were smokers; everyone was a smoker then. Those three, though, they smoked to live. Cigarettes! There the cigarette would be, raised to the lips. The lips opening, only a little. The smoke drifting across the roof of… Walking in the Dark, by Kathryn Davis | Conjunctions - The forum for innovative writing via Instapaper https://ift.tt/33m1OJw
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  • Volition by Alec Austin author bio Alec Austin is a video game designer and a graduate of the Clarion West 2000 writing workshop. He's worked as an undergraduate nuclear reactor operator, TAed for (and discussed fantasy novels with) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and earned a Masters degree from MIT in Comparative Media Studies. This is his first fiction sale. [close author bio]
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  • We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
  • I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
  • Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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  • Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
  • Reading is the same way.
  • He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
  • And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
  • How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
  • beautiful and damning distinction
  • best self
  • authentic self
  • Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
  • Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
  • reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
  • I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.
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    brother, court, family, flash fiction, football, Jack Fisher, match, short stories, short story, writing Alison zips her jacket up to her neck. She looks down at her daughter beside her, wishing she had insisted on a coat. Lucy is as stubborn as she…
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