Every Day Fiction's December Calendar

December begins tomorrow bringing with it a fair amount of chaos.  However, remember when you need a short break  Every Day Fiction provides flash fiction that can be read during a coffee break.  

Table of Contents

Dec 1	Joyce Statton	Tidings
Dec 2	J.D. Rice	Questions
Dec 3	JR Hume	Dust on the Sun
Dec 4	Susan Kaempfer	How to Embarrass Mum and Dad
Dec 5	Ken Liu	The Letter
Dec 6	Joe Alan Artz	Knott Travel
Dec 7	Kurt Kirchmeier	Clicks and Whirs
Dec 8	A. F. McKeating	Listening
Dec 9	Randall Brown	Just Like Earth Girls
Dec 10	Karen Laine	Taking Chances
Dec 11	Brittany Michelson	Truth In Lemonade Stands
Dec 12	Alex Fleetwood	The Meaning of Hard Work
Dec 13	John Impey	Refrigerator Sphinx
Dec 14	Mark Wolf	Koggie and the Autonomous House
Dec 15	Omenka Helen Uchendu	If Only God Were Watching
Dec 16	Kaolin Imago Fire	It Comes Down to This
Dec 17	Elizabeth	Your Smile
Dec 18	Howard Cincotta	Silent Velcro
Dec 19	Mary J. Daley	Ready or Not
Dec 20	Richard Lamb	Making Merry
Dec 21	H.P. Mandrake	Long Goat
Dec 22	Ben Carey	The Girl with the Red Ribbon in Her Hair
Dec 23	Wanda Morrow-Clevenger	Roses and Peppermint Candy
Dec 24	Digby Beaumont	Who Knew More than Karen Carpenter About a Broken Heart?
Dec 25	Kip	Kringle
Dec 26	Heather Holland Wheaton	Coats
Dec 27	Patrick S. Tomlinson	Earth Girls are Hard
Dec 28	Elizabeth Perfect	The Night the Planes Stopped Flying
Dec 29	Dee Turbon	One Kiss
Dec 30	Sandra Crook	The Old Ways
Dec 31	P. Djeli Clark	The Machine

FFC Listed as one of BEST Online Consumer Mag Markets!

Terrific news came this morning. And I should have figured it out for myself!  EDF's Camille and Jordan sent congrats on Flash Fiction Chronicles  being listed in the Nov/Dec Writers Digest   as one of the 25 Best Online Consumer Magazine Markets!!! Who knew?! Not me! I knew EDF and 10 Flash were listed and SmokeLong Quarterly mentioned too, but it never occurred to me that FFC made one of the lists!!! Yippee!!

A Story for Veteran's Day

Dawn's Early Light


The morning he was to leave, I slipped into his room. Pale light through  curtains lined-up like soldiers, tall, straight, at attention.  I had to admit it looked a little glorious, but then I turned back to my boy. The quilt my own mama made was pulled right up to his chin, his mouth was open, his breathing soft like feathery wind. 

Sweat glistened on his forehead and as I stroked the dampness away, he opened his eyes, confused for a moment but comfortable too. Warm. Safe under his  own mama's gaze. 

They say the worst thing in the world is to bury a child. I testify to that. Toby went to war because he was told it was the right thing to do. Not by me. Never me.


by Gay Degani

Steve Lowe is giving away books!

Steve Lowe is having a promotion at his website Shitzengiggles and giving away FREE BOOKS.  Check it out here: http://steve-lowe.com/2010/11/09/who-wants-a-free-book/!

Phew! What a fun couple of weeks!

Wednesday night was the signing at Vroman's for the W.W. Norton Hint Fiction Anthology edited by Robert Swartwood.  I enjoyed meeting fellow contributors Jenn Alandy, Jeremy D. Brooks, Daniel A. Olivas, Robin Rozanski and A. J. Slye.  The bookstore personnel were wonderful and the audience much appreciated. Signed copies are now available at Vroman's.  Think Christmas! Think independent bookstores!


New Reviews and Mentions of the Hint Fiction Anthology
Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post


Here's a list of current stories by me online:
Something about LA at Litsnack
Body-Snatching at LITnIMAGE
Isla Vista, 1970 at Foundling Review
Closed Down at 50 to 1

Thriller! A Young Adult Anthology is out with my story, "Gravity Island," included.  Available at  a discounted price at the Pill Hill/Static Movement Online Store.


There's a new review up at Sonar4 Landing Dock Reviews of Pomegranate Stories.  Check it out here.

Goals for November

I'm always writing about goals and then ignoring them, but I'm going to be perverse and keep posting them until I get it right.  Goal #1 is the novel. You've heard it before and most of you probably don't believe it will happen, but it will!  It will!

My other main goal is to get some help at Flash Fiction Chronicles.  Denny Lee Vanvick has agreed to help out but I think I need a couple more editors.  So if you are interested in applying to be an assistant editor, send me a note and tell me what part you'd like to play.  Or if you are interested in having a once a month feature column at FFC, I would like to consider that as a possibility too.  If interviewing, writing craft posts, finding articles, proof-reading, gathering news bits, or posting a weekly photo prompt appeals to you let me know.

What else for November?  My son and his wife are coming for early Thanksgiving so I'm looking forward to that.  My goal is to be in a good work place (meaning a few posts ahead at FFC and significant novel progress) by the time they get here so I can reeeellllllaaaaaxxxxx and enjoy their visit.

I think that's it.  I also want to enjoy the signing Wednesday night at Vromans for the Hint Fiction anthology.  Editor Robert Swartwood will be out for that and I hope lots of people come.  It's at 7:00 November 3 upstairs at Vromans in Old Town.