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Saturday Short – Reading Cats (repost)
Today’s Saturday Short is a repost from January, a story that seems at first to be about the relationship between two teachers and a mutual friend, but takes a dark turn when one of the teachers...
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Monday Short Story – The Man With New Name
Alright, I know that shorts are normally posted here on Saturdays. But, how about we throw the routine out the window and just start posting stuff when the inspiration hit? I don’t know about the other...
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Part Four of the Banter Series : The Owe-Box Incident
Yeah, I know it’s not Saturday, but the wait has been too long for this latest episode of the Banter series. Banter started as a single piece of flash fiction, a conversation between an Old West...
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The Guy Who Could Take A Punch – Flash Fiction In Three Acts
Again, it’s not Saturday, but here’s an episode of Saturday Shorts. This time, it’s a piece of flash fiction called “The Guy Who Could Take A Punch – Flash Fiction In Three Acts.” Enjoy!
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What’s J Been Reading? [Bounty Day, 23 Jan 12]
I haven’t been posting about everything I read lately. To be honest, the constant updating was a bit tedious and the feedback lukewarm. But, every once in a while I find something that is just too...
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“Tysons Corner” released by Cenolithic!
J. Nelson Leith’s second release, a conceptual short story called “Tysons Corner” about the televised aftermath of a massive attack on a suburb of Washington, D.C., is now available on Kindle and Nook!...
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Flash fiction : “Sweet Briar”
He would swing by for a visit, usually once a week or so. It was just to be together, he would tell himself. To remember old times. But, concern dragged him back to her fixations. The wasting. The...
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Short story : “At Home”
I don’t remember when the Japanese came to Wotúru. My grandfather told me that I asked if they were bleeding, because their uniforms had little patches of red on the throat and hats. “Covers” they call...
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Experiment in the Bare Bones of Storytelling : Pirates of the Caribbean...
I explained the theory of “tent-poles” in Part 1: What makes a powerful story is simply having tent-poles in the three spatial dimensions of setting, character, and theme plus the temporal dimension of...
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New Short Story – Bobby Tuck
Today’s writing is a modern realist short story set somewhere in the Midwest. It’s 1300 words conceived, written, edited, and posted in a little under three hours this morning. Ever wonder what to call...
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