I love great short stories.
They are quick, stimulating, and they always leave you wanting more—as long
as they are written well. I participate
in a lot of flash fiction contests, which are challenges designed at creating
meaningful fiction tales within only a hundred or two hundred words. Definitely not easy, yet it’s great fun to
challenge myself as a writer in that way.
One of my favorite authors, Jeffery Deaver, released a few
compilations of short stories: Twisted
and More Twisted, and I have to say
they were two of my favorite books. I’d
just pick one up, read a short story or two, and walk away instantly
satisfied. And just as the names
suggest, Deaver loves to turn the tables on his readers by including
crazy and unforeseen twists, and he does not disappoint in either of these
collections.
And likewise as I’d mentioned in a post a couple of weeks
ago, Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man
is a collection of his short stories.
Bradbury’s stories were written for Sci-Fi enthusiasts, and while he
still had some shocking twists to his tales, the more notable aspect of his
writing is how he details futuristic and often dystopian worlds with chillingly realistic details.
In tribute to these two great authors, I’ve released one of
my own short stories, “Class One Act.” I’ll
probably have a few more in the near future.
If you are reading this and you’d like to check it out FOR FREE (rather
than paying for a copy on Smashwords.com), let me know and I’ll send you a
coupon.
And don’t hesitate to let me know if you think it
stinks! Because really, I can only get
better when I know where and how I’ve erred!
Click here to check out "Class One Act!"
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