Almost another disasterous no-show for me this week. I had a story that I've been working on for a couple of days, and yesterday it was finished. Until I had an inspiration last night of a way to improve and expand the main character. So I added another 200 words today, taking it close to the 1000 word limit. It's still flash fiction, but much longer than I post most weeks. I'm not satisifed with it though. The concept is almost brilliant, but I don't have time to do it justice and it needs more work to get it right.
Fortunately I have another FFF idea that's been lurking for a couple of weeks, so I dashed that one out in 300 words today. I'm quite pleased with it, though a bit more time to polish would be nice; that's the idea of FFF though, so here it is:
White Out
By Gareth D Jones
White Out will be appearing in the July 2009 issue of Golden Visions magazine.
Nice conceit. :) I part-guessed what was coming, but while I expected the "tiny invaders" angle (who was it who wrote the story where the cat ate the diplomatic mission? Was that Wyndham?) I didn't see the snowflakes coming.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading the longer piece!
Don't remember that one, but there was the Hitchhikers Guide incident where an entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog. That was actually the inspiration behind my earlier FFF Swarm.
ReplyDeleteNice, made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a tiny-people-in-crystals story last week.
Yes, read that one a week late. Another bizarre coincidene in the world of FFF...
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