Author Archives: Matter Press
Sunday Drive
where all the leavers go to do their leaving Continue reading
white dove of peace
A series of photographs from a tiny village, 12 of 12. Continue reading
FlashFiction.Net- What Is Flash Fiction?: Robert Shapard & James ThomasYet the [flashes] I loved seemed to go even beyond "mere" inventiveness. They evoked lifetimes and worldsThey evoked lifetimes and worlds... […]Robert Shapard
- Paralipsis: The Best Rhetorical Device--Evah!A speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. […]Randall Brown
- Flash Craft: Start Following the "Almond Rule" for Story OpeningsThe reader should know at least much as your protagonist […]Randall Brown
- Flash Fiction Craft: Use POV To Close That Distance in a FlashWriting third-person pieces that use, as much as possible, the character's language, then, is one way to speed up the identification process. […]Randall Brown
- Flash Fiction Craft: So What (Exactly) is Brevity in Flash Fiction?So what is brevity exactly? I don't know. It's about getting words to count more than they might in other less-compressed forms. […]Randall Brown
- Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain": Using Summarization to Create Dramatic DialogueYou, too, can manipulate dialogue through summary and indirect quotation to heighten dramatic effect […]Jennifer Fenn
- What Is Flash Fiction?: Robert Shapard & James Thomas