Day 29: “I send cards to people and sign them from their casual acquaintances…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a truly one-of-a-kind writer and Fbomb NYC host Paul Beckman!

**AND join me on Friday, December 1, at 6 pm EST for Paul’s Fbomb NYC feature and Virtual Book Launch for Becoming Mirsky. 
(For the Zoom Link Contact Paul Beckman at: paul@paulbeckman.com)

Paul Beckman’s last flash collection, “Kiss Kiss” was a finalist for the Best Indie Awards for short story collections 2019. Paul had a micro-story selected for the 2018 Norton Anthology New Micro Exceptionally Short Fiction, was one of the winners in the 2016 The Best Small Fictions and his story “Mom’s Goodbye” was chosen as the winner of the 2016 Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize. Paul was nominated for the 2019 Best Small fiction series and had a story accepted for the 2022 Best of Microfictions. He’s widely published with over 750 stories. 

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Paul Beckman’s Website 

Becoming Mirsky

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Day 28: Find a few moments to look at the image below, and let it sink in–wait until something in the image wants to be written–and write…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the uber talented Vanessa Gebbie and her brand new book 51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers!

Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist and award-winning short storyist. Author of two collections: Words from a Glass Bubble and Storm Warning (Salt), her novel The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury UK/US) was selected as a UK Financial Times Book of the Year and Guardian readers’ book of the year.

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51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers

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Day 27: She went on, deeper into the woods… 

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you from the birthday girl herself, Sally Reno!

Sally Reno lives in a vaporish grotto where she serves as Pythoness to Blink Ink Print and Haruspex for Shining Mountain Press. Her fiction has been among the winners of National Public Radio’s Three Minute Fiction Contest, the Moon Milk Review Prosetry Contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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Day 26: Write a story in which one of your characters is a natural element–rain, fire, earth, wind...

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you from the dazzling and extraordinary Lynn Mundell!

Lynn Mundell is co-founder of 100 Word Story and co-editor of its anthology, Nothing Short Of. She’s the founder and editor of Centaur, a quarterly journal dedicated to hybrid flash, and the author of the fiction chapbook Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us, published in 2022 by the University of South Carolina. 

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http://lynnmundell.com/

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