So what’s flash fiction?

Short stories. Really short. Most of my stories started life as entries in a daily online flash fiction contest. The daily prompt is three specific words that have to appear in a story of no more than 300 words, a complete story in less than a page. Typically, it will take you about a minute to read each of my yarns. Flash - it’s over, and you can go.

Why subscribe?

To read about politics? Nope. The culture divide? Nope. Economic and health-care inequity? Nope and nope. Sports, war, poverty? Nope, nope, nope. To read my quickie stories? Yep. How is that important? Good question. Don’t ask me. I just write the stuff. If you decide to read it, many thanks!

Hashtags

Looking for a story that conveys a specific theme? Here are some of the ideas behind my stories. Enter a hashtag in the search bar to find stories that touch on a specific theme.

#Adolescence

#Art

#Betrayal

#Cheating

#Children

#Children’sPerspective

#Christmas

#Classroom

#Competition

#Cooking

#CookingAsLove

#Crime

#Danger

#Disobedience

#Divorce

#Dreams

#Duplicity

#EmotionalRecovery

#EmotionalScarring

#EmotionalSurrender

#Family

#Fantasy

#Friendship

#Generosity

##Gratitude

#Heroism

#HiddenAgendas

#History

#Holidays

#Horror

#HumorInRelationships

#Identity

#Illness

#Infidelity

#Interior life

#Justice

#Karma

#Kindness

#LifeAndDeath

#LifeChoices

#Loneliness

#Memory

#Military

#Morality

#MoralChoices

#Movies

#Murder

#Nature

#Nostalgia

#Parent-child relationships

#PartnerRelationships

#PersonalityQuirks

#Pets

Regret

#RolePlay

#Romance

#School

#Siblings

#Sports

#Strategy

#Students

#Supernatural

#Teachers

#Temptation

#EmptyNest

#InteriorLife

#ModernLife

#TimeTravel

#Tragedy

#TreasuredMemories

#Violence

#Wisdom

Community

If you’re here, you’re either a reader or a writer or both. I do believe there is a community of us out there. In here. Wherever. I mean, a gaggle of hundreds of book groups says something. And that’s just on my block.

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Got a minute? That's about how long it'll take you to zip through each of my flash fiction stories here. Thanks for reading!

People

Robert Menzimer

@robertmenzimer

I teach writing, reading, English. I've run non-profits, for-profits, a school. I've been a jazz DJ, pizza cook, cab driver. I've been a lot of things and met a lot of great people along the way.