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Enjoy the Evolution
From standard text to graphic panels to multi-media! https://youtube.com/shorts/7d_7gdOe6Mg?si=2l6DHgRbUXTrEFCl
khoerner
5 days ago1 min read


As Managing Editor of SIU-C's Crab Orchard Review
I encourage you to jump over and experience this fine journal. We do accept flash fiction of approx. 750-1,500 words by the way :) Keith
khoerner
Mar 281 min read


March Madness Contest Announces Final Four Dribbles
Visit our Contest Page for details/deadlines for you to select the Top Two
khoerner
Mar 201 min read


50-Word Dribble as Single-Panel Graphic
In the spirit of Will Eisner and Scott McCloud...
khoerner
Mar 31 min read
Sunday Shorts
DRIBBLE Liminal Spaces by Melissa Jo Williams, Canada I've been thinking a lot about transience. Maybe it's the morphine. Maybe it's the pain when the morphine pump runs dry. I've been thinking about shadows, of liminal spaces, of the tapering, narrow path under the River Birch canopy, of its peeling yellow bark that holds on, even through winter. DRABBLE Heart in a Box by Kathryn Silver-Hajo, USA | pull the leaf from its box, edges slightly curled, heart-shaped core ro
khoerner
Mar 11 min read
Sunday Shorts
Lesson Plans by Rob Vogt, USA (50-word Dribble) After the second plane hit, we were instructed not to discuss political motives with our students. Instead, we analyzed the chemical make-up of airplane fuel, calculated mass times acceleration for concrete chucks cascading toward the street, and brainstormed adjectives to describe New Yorkers running from Ground Zero, panicked and screaming Destiny Made Manifest by Kevin Grauke, USA (100-word Drabble) Beset by fever, the man
khoerner
Feb 221 min read
"I Came Back to Flash Through Poetry"
by JOHN BRANTINGHAM Founder and General Editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac, and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has 19 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear, Kitkitdizzi, and Days of Recent Divorce. He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He live
khoerner
Feb 202 min read


Sunday Shorts
Censured Suicide (a Poem also Entitled Redacted Relationship)
khoerner
Feb 151 min read


Sunday Shorts
#FrancineWitte #Dribble
khoerner
Feb 81 min read


Send Your Longer-Length Sudden/Flash Fiction of Approx. 750 to 1,000 Words to SIUC's Crab Orchard Review
Of Which I Am the Managing Editor as Well :) Opportunities Await!
khoerner
Feb 11 min read
Honoring Black History Month
Whitewashing History Against a Blackening Afternoon Sky (As Published in Literary Yard by Keith Hoerner) - After Nooning Tree in St. Louis $10,000 down Gets you in Your choice of Ranch or two-story In prestigious Nooning Tree “Is there one, a Nooning Tree?” “Of course,” the saleslady answers Loose strands of hair catching The corner of her mouth Like a lie Tempered by talk of tradition She motions; I follow Slipping on the deceptively Green sod Outside her display hom
khoerner
Feb 11 min read


5 Best 50 Word Story Literary Magazines: The Only List You Need
According to Buildwriting 1) 50 Word Stories 2) The Dribble Drabble Review 3) Blink-ink 4) Molecule 5) 50 Give or Take
khoerner
Jan 281 min read


#2 Thanks to You!
Get Your Free Book Today! Offer Extended Thru Wednesday!
khoerner
Jan 261 min read


#SundayShorts
The 'Transport'ative Nature of Microfiction
khoerner
Jan 251 min read


FREE E-Book Thru Today, Wednesday 1/28, at Midnight
Over 250 Microfiction stories to bundle up with and enjoy! Afterward, as a courtesy, please review :) https://tinyurl.com/5tvm2rse
khoerner
Jan 241 min read


khoerner
Jan 180 min read


Join Us in Celebrating the New Book Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned by Masterful Flash Fiction Writers from Around the Globe Curated by the Fabulous Karen Schauber!
Get yours on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/2e6zs7b3 In the meantime, here's a take on titles by one of our very own ;) #flashfictiontips #WixBlog
khoerner
Mar 6, 20201 min read
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