Day 23: A disappearance…

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you by the most badass of the badass writers, Jayne Martin!

Jayne Martin is a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions nominee, and a recipient of Vestal Review’s VERA award. Work in New Flash Fiction Review, Spelk, Crack the Spine, Midwestern Gothic, Barren, MoonPark Review, Blink-Ink, and Bending Genres among others. She is also the author of Suitable for Giving: A Collection of Wit with a Side of Wry, a collection of humor essays. Her TV-movie writing credits include Big Spender for Animal Planet, and A Child Too Many, Cradle of Conspiracy, and Deceived by Trust for Lifetime. She lives in California, where she rides horses and drinks copious amounts of fine wines, though not at the same time.

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The Daddy Chronicles

Jayne Martin’s website

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Day 22: Use these five words: limbo, keen, garden, possess, secretive

First sentence: It’s broken again

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you by flash fiction visionary and publisher, the one and only Randall Brown!

Randall Brown is the author of Mad to Live, a collection that sold out in a month and was reprinted by PS Books as a Deluxe Edition. His work appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, The Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction,  The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, and Grey House’s Critical Insights: American Short Story & Critical Insights: Flash Fiction. Recent books include Healing Visions, an anthology of fine art and 100-word flashes from some of the field’s finest as well as a Kirkus-starred book and winner of a NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD.  

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Healing Visions: An Anthology of fine art and 100-word flashes

A Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction

Matter Press

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Day 21: You meet your soulmate in the city of your choice, but you are leaving the next day…

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you by the incredible philosopher and poet Jomil Ebro!

Jomil Ebro has dedicated his creative work to considering the deep relationship between poetry and consciousness. He is a professor of Composition, Creative Writing, Journalism, Philosophy and the Humanities at Arapahoe Community College and received his Ph.D from the University of Iowa, where he also trained at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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The Writers Studio at ACC

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Day 20: “I’m sorry, but they just smell kind of weird…”

Today’s celebrity prompt was overheard by the multi-talented flash fiction writer and activist Tara Campbell!

Tara Campell is proud to be on the current roster for the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau, and is a mentor the the 19th season of AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Larry Neal Writers’ Award in Adult Fiction, the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist, and Arts and Humanities Fellowships for 2018 – 2022. She is also a 2017 Kimbilio Fellow and winner of the 2018 Robert Gover Story Prize. Tara earned her MFA from American University in 2019, and is a fiction editor at Barrelhouse. 

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