Tell a story that uses dialogue—preferably between two characters of different ages and sexes.
If the dialogue is continuous, use at least one pause or break in dialogue.
Establish setting quickly; establish, use weather, even if the story takes place completely indoors.
One of the characters has or produces an object for consideration.
Make the object vivid quickly.
Length: three to four pages.
October 7
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About Me
- Bob
- I write short stories and essays. I have published well over one hundred stories, essays, and flash fictions or nonfictions in magazines or anthologies, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe, three collections of stories, Private Acts, Killers & Others, and Not a Jot or a Tittle, and two chapbooks of flash fiction, Shutterbug and Dragon Box. I grew up in a military family, so I'm not from anywhere in particular except probably Akron, where I've lived for forty years. Before I came here, I never lived anywhere longer than three years.
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