Hello, dolls. It’s time for another fiction contest. This one was squeezed from the mindgrapes of furiouslyred; I’m just the vintner putting her idea juices in oak casks or whatever. I’m calling this one Crash Fiction as a combination of ‘crass’ and ‘flash.’ Branding!
So, I’m sure you know what flash fiction is, but in case anyone doesn’t I’ll explain: flash fiction (alternately called micro-fiction, sudden fiction and a million other stupid names) refers to–you guessed it–extremely short fiction. It should have all the elements of a regular-length short story (it’s not simply a character portrait or vignette), but these elements must be compressed into an itty-bitty word count. There’s no universal standard; different publishers tend to set their own rules so that’s what we will be doing, and by we I mean me.
Your Crash Fiction entry should be no less than 50 words. It should be no more than 250 words. The only other rule is that this sentence must appear somewhere in your entry:
“I cut my nails too short, and this is going to be the longest Thursday ever.”
You may change the tense, but alter nothing else. Entries will be accepted through Sunday September 25, 5PM EST. The winner will be announced on Monday. There is no prize. Unless you want to make out with me.
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