Revenge of the Return of the Children of FICLY and other flash fiction

Muse Among Men

Yeah I read it too

I wanna write something that rhymes again . . .

Larlar

Quoth wrote: »

yeah larlar, i can add you but what's the link

get ready for a shock

http://ficly.com/authors/larlar

t organ: you found the way into my heart

Viscount Islands

"I have good ideas"?

God Larlar, how arrogant can you be?

Larlar

Pretty arrogant.

Sarksus

I am going to write a story.

Maybe most of them will be written while I have been drinking.

Muse Among Men

Ficly won't let me log in . . .

Charles Kinbote

I'm going to post what may be the one good "flash fiction" ever written so that maybe we can start to get on with our dang lives

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

Butler For Life #1

Who wrote that?

Charles Kinbote

David Foster Wallace

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Well thank goodness we got that out of the way.

Butler For Life #1

It was pretty good. But there's definitely more good flash fiction out there.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Honestly I don't like it that much and that last line is shit.


Opinions, etc.

Larlar

Butler For Life #1 wrote: »

It was pretty good. But there's definitely more good flash fiction out there.

Didn't you hear what he said? That's the only good one.

Quoth

i actually didn't like it very much

i prefer updike and carver

Butler For Life #1

I think it's sort of funny, but so cynical it almost becomes smug. I liked it, didn't love it.

Quoth

this is a flash story that i like

http://smokelong.com/flash/danchaon25.asp

there are many good ones on that site

Quoth

oh this one also yes, love stuart dybek

http://smokelong.com/flash/6419.asp

Butler For Life #1

Quoth wrote: »

this is a flash story that i like

http://smokelong.com/flash/danchaon25.asp

there are many good ones on that site

I prefer this one to the Wallace story.

Aneurhythmia

I apparently can't remember what my account on that site is. Balls.

So, one time, I talked to Stuart Dybek about shrooming.

Quoth

how cool is stuart dybek in person

so cool or not at all cool

Muse Among Men

Hurm, someone write me my World War 2 porno. It would be appreciated.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

I apparently can't remember what my account on that site is. Balls.

Annie

Quoth

starring captain jack harkness

Larlar

Quoth wrote: »

oh this one also yes, love stuart dybek

http://smokelong.com/flash/6419.asp

I really like this.

Butler For Life #1

That is an amazing story.

Muse Among Men

Yeah, that one was good.

Quoth

sorry guys, only one good flash fic ever written, and those are not it

everything else, just poop and smelly boners

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Maybe I'll just delete my old stories and repost them under a new name.

Muse Among Men

S-smelly boners?

Charles Kinbote

Quoth wrote: »

this is a flash story that i like

http://smokelong.com/flash/danchaon25.asp

there are many good ones on that site

this is...totally different in terms of structure and length

Quoth

and not delicious smells either

stinky green baby poop smells

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I mean. It's been almost a year. I bet nobody would even notice.

Aneurhythmia

Quoth wrote: »

how cool is stuart dybek in person

so cool or not at all cool

We talked about synesthetic hallucination, and he told me he wanted words to resemble their meaning in physical appearance. He spent like four or five minutes trying to come up with an example, and I completely forgot what it was. I hope he wrote it down.

Talon: Dammit, don't undermine my excuses to not shit on my keyboard.

Charles Kinbote

I was being a little tongue-in-cheek (arrrgh I hate that) but I really do not care for flash fiction

so many people use it as "a little short story," too, which is unfortunate

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I am undermining so many things, Annie, I can't even keep track anymore. Your excuses are but a sidenote in the margins of the ledger of failures that is my life.

Quoth

welcome to the flash fiction thread

clearly meant for people who do not care for flash fiction

seriously though, i don't know how much or what you've read but if you're dismissing it wholesale like that then i'm sad for you

Ten

Hey, I'm on that list! I'd forgotten I'd written those things, they were kinda not bad-ish. I think I'll stick to writing code for now though.

Sarksus

I made an account.

http://ficly.com/authors/sarksus

I'll write something later. I promise.

Charles Kinbote

I've read a lot

some authors really transcend the form with it, but they are super rare

I think it has a very particular niche and a lot of people try to make it broader than it has the capacity to be

I do understand that a lot of folks have done really interesting things with it (from DFW to a radically attenuated version of Nabokov's Signs and Symbols that was, frankly, incredible) but I think most of it is terrible

see: ficly

To speak without hyperbole, honestly, I think it takes a very particular kind of sensibility that not many authors have, and I think it's easy to fall into a place where one is accustomed to looking at new concepts through the lens of a flash fiction writer, which is a Bad Thing

Quoth

i am really not sure why you want to have a conversation on why flash fiction is terrible in a thread devoted to people writing flash fiction

to speak without hyperbole, i think there is plenty of delightful flash fiction out there and i have linked to a site that showcases it, just one of many out there, and that is only scratching the surface because there is also a lot of published flash that isn't available online

ficly is a collection of amateur writers practicing their craft in (i presume) an effort to get better at it, so why you would hold that up as any kind of example of the potential of the style is beyond me