While I continue my research on zombies and the effects of automotive crash injuries on the undead (thaaanks guys), here's my latest Flash 55. Details about the game and some flash fiction markets follow, as usual.
- Four of them, one each side of a square kitchen table, one mug apiece.
"Milk and sugar?"
"Thanks."
Her mother smiled: nice young man...
Her father, frowning: ...in my house.
"So," Father said, "What do you do?"
"I'm in transportation," said Owen, "researching my latest novel."
"Mystery?"
"So far."
Annamarie laughed at least; he smiled.
The first two 'chapters' of this were posted on the two previous Fridays so if you like you can click the links in the sidebar; sometime this week I'll organise a link list for the whole story to update as I go. To join in the fun, write any story you like in 55-words(no more no less) then tell Mr. Knowitall, a.k.a. G-Man by leaving a comment on his own Flash-55 post today. (Posted even though his daughter is getting married today, 19th June 2009... CONGRATULATIONS!)
Meanwhile, we're up to "C" in the flash fiction markets:
The Chatahoochee Review makes the list partly because it's a great publication, partly because Chatahoochee is just so much fun to say, and partly because their blog is called (I kid you not) Pass the Hooch. Amen my brother. The submissions link is in the sidebar.
Cabinet des Fées is an online journal dedicated to the fairy tale; you've got until July 15th to submit fiction or poetry for the autumn issue.
Chicago Review accepts poetry, fiction, and book reviews, and would like very nice on a writer's resume. That's right you guessed it, they don't pay. They will however send you several copies of the issue you're in, and a full year's subscription. Well if you want to call that payment, go for it.
Cat Tales is looking for fantasy fiction featuring cats (obviously). No talking cats please. Other publications are on this page as well, including Weird Tales and Juno Books.
Cricket is BIG, and for kids, and a great market to break into if you can, paying good rates.
Good luck if you submit something out in the big world, and meanwhile, I'm off to see what my other 55-ers have written today.
Tomorrow, a SHOCK announcement. Really, I'm shocked. Wait 'til you hear...
21 comments: join in!:
Wonderful 55. I remember the first meeting with her parents. Ugh.
Hi Dr. John! I remember meeting my mother-in-law for the first time too, I was bewildered. Still am! LOL
I can just see the scene in my mind's eye. Brings back memories :-)
Excellently done.
Cat stories... hmmmm... I wonder if he'd like mine? :)
Nice 55!
How cool that you publish a roundup of other participants too.
;-)
Here's my Flash-55:
PLAYING HOUSE – THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE
Thanks Anthony; my daughter's nearly nineteen so I'm sitting on the other side of the table now...nobody told me that side was WORSE! LOL
Ken, that cat story was one of my best internet moments ever--DO send it in somehow! I'm still laughing.
Thanks Linda! It's G-Man who does the round-up (his link is in the post) and meanwhile, I'm off to read yours--great title for the day!
Hi Susan!
Thanks for posting the markets.
Though I have this year's "Writer's Market", I tend to forget it's there under the pile of papers and notes :)
I popped over from Rachelle's blog party, by the way!
Happy weekend,
Jennifer
Great post and I hope you have a terrific weekend. My 55 is up.
Things can be very cold at that first meeting and sometimes a joke can just break through that ice! :)
Love it!
Jennifer, thanks! I try to post a handful of markets several times a week, (and I haven't admitted this yet but) I can then search my own blog for the ones I want to get back to... how sad is that? Otherwise I'd just lose my notes, typically. *sigh*. Visited your blog and enjoyed it!
Thanks Jade; I liked yours!
Akelamalu, mahalo! I've been wondering whether to make the parents the zombies... hmmm.
Thanks Susan...
For Everything!!!
My son Reese is prepared for the Zombie Apocolypse!!!
Loved the 55.....G
Hey there Galen, shouldn't you be dancing with a bride or something? Or have you managed the mysteries of bilocation at last? (share the secret!)
Whatever's going on, Congratulations to you and the whole family; I hope you're kicking off a perfectly marvellous weekend!
Very clever! L
LOL! My very first attempt at writing a novel was a mystery, even to me. :) I was 13 at the time and flying straight into the mist.
Great 55. I wonder if the father even picked up on what Owen was doing...Excellent my friend :)
Thanks, Lani!
Alice Audrey, that's exactly it--it's a complete mystery to my hero too. LOL Sometimes I wish that my 'juvenilia' had survived, so that I could see it again. Then I realise that its loss is very likely for the BEST! ROFL
Thom, you got in there without me seeing you before--oops!
My mother sent me to private school (blugh) and advised me to tell anyone who asked that my father was in transportation. I never forgot that for some reason; I thought (still do) that bus-driving was pretty damn cool.
I like the fact that yours is following a "To Be Continued" format.
Paul Harvey would be so proud. :)
I'm still sitting on mine, waiting on that #$%! photo from brother dearest. I fear I shall die of old age before he remembers to find it...and by then he'll be too old to remember what he was even looking for. :)
I like your serials--will have to check back for the 1st one. I'm not sure I could do that. My 55 is posted but I don't think I did the link right.
Hope, a naughty word?! But seriously tell him to hand over, I was waiting for your story all day and now you're saying I have to go another week? Grrrr. (At the brother, not you.)
I had no choice about the continued format really; fitting my writing into a flash-length is like fitting my butt into size 4 jeans. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. lol
Mimi, thanks! I'm going to set up the whole story somewhere in a week or two to make it easy I think. I don't know about the link, I'm afraid, because I'm one of your followers so I came through Google Reader.
I am enjoying your 55s!
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