FLASH FICTION FORUM

Authors and Works:

Renee Jenkins-Schell, “Rape Victim Barbie

Marilyn Horn-Fahey, “Surfer”

Ilza Duarte, “Do Not Break the Rules”

Liz Nguyen, “A Basket on the Yangtze”

Kevin Arnold, “Shimko”

Dorothy Coover, “Still Life With Wife”

Tania, “While You Were Sleeping”

Jade Bradbury, “Time to Watch Your Back: Homewrecker Barbie”

Rob Davidson, “Hoover Dam” and “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” from Spectators: Flash Fictions, Five Oaks Press, 2018

Barbara Anderson, “Arrival”

Monica McHenny, : “Anticipation Stakes,” “Dry Lightning,” “Wear Flats,” and “Anticipation Waiting”

Kevin Sharp, “Coffins”

Our January show featured tremendous talent. The weather was cold and wet and yet new and familiar faces filled the chairs.  Tania Martin missed co-hosting with Lita Kurth due to a troublesome appendix, but Eva Smith-Glynn donned a trench-coat and fedora and stepped up to the podium. Thanks, Eva!

Authors & Work:

Mel Nicholson, “The Spot”

Lita Kurth, “Bride of Science”

Colleen McKee, “The 59-Cent Pad of Paper” published in Memoir Pooland in  the chapbook, My Hot Little Tomato(Cherry Pie Press)  ColleenMcKee.Blogspot.com

Dave Eisbach, “Shrinking” published in Entwined collection, 2018.

Ellaraine Lockie, “No California Cuisine” published in Where the Meadowlark  Sings, winner of 2014 Encircle Press Chapbook Contest

Christine Kalife, “Hands Like Wild Salmon”

Rob Pesich, “Black Cat Alchemy”

Vinnie Lopez, “Listen to the Good Night”

Shannon Rose Riley, “Shh” commissioned for an exhibition at Arc  Gallery in San Francisco,  https://www.ncwca.org/f213-exhibition.html

Keiko O’Leary, “Chemistry Class,” KeikoOLeary.com

Hugh Behm-Steinberg, “Lifeguards”

 

 

 

Our October 10th show was riveting! The readings fluctuated from gut wrenching accounts of the heart to hilarious recollections of misfortune. Here’s the fabulous  line-up of our October 10th show:

1.     Tania Martin, “Apollo and Aphrodite Cut the Line”

2.     Kimy Martinez, “Before I Met My Mom”

3.     Ann Harleman “History for the First Time”

4.     Al Preciado, “The Insistence of Memory”

5.   Leslie Hoffman, “Hereafter Musings,” published in BellaOnline Literary Review, 2017 Spring Equinox Issue

5.     Donnelle C. McGee, excerpts from “Hey You” forthcoming from Unbound Content

6.     Deborah Kennedy, “Natural Revenge”

7.     Mike Karpa, “Chili Dog”

8.     Carol Park, “Round the Table”

9.    Claire Hawkins, “Percy Jones”

10.   Nancy Devine, “In the Beginning, There Was Risk”

11.   Susannah Carlson, “The Night You Remember”

Authors and Works:

Hugh Behm-Steinberg, “Bibles” published in Atticus Review.

Jade Bradbury, “What’s Sauce for the Goose”

Elizabeth Nguyen, “T-T-T-Telephone”

Sarah Hinkle, “Family Aptitude Test”

Lita Kurth, “Bed Bath and Beyoncé”

Anne Sconberg, “Gin and Thin”

Bob Dickerson, “Stagecraft”

Tarn Wilson, “A Single Mother’s Survival Guide: Money”

Rob Pesich, “Apologies to “Caenorhabditis elegans”

Michelle Myers, “Hair”

Tara Ganguly, “Yes I’m Getting a Puppy”

Bill Kalogeros, “Flight Behavior”

Jared Nardone, “Number of Life” published in Red Wheelbarrow2018

Heidi Eisips, “Mechoniot” (Cars)