It’s almost that time!
FlashNano is back! In solidarity with our NaNoWriMo novel writing friends, flash fiction writers everywhere will be writing:
30 STORIES IN 30 DAYS!
Prompts provided for those who like that sort of thing.
Check out last year’s prompts, sign up for email prompts (below) and join the FB event page here
https://www.facebook.com/events/654778874697851/
JOIN MY MAILING LIST!
(…you know you want to!)
I’m proud to join this AMAZING lineup with my creative partner in crime, Nick Busheff. We’ll be doing our Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities sideshow act with full clown makeup one last time!
My Mother Was a Circus Clown
by Nancy Stohlman
When she kissed me goodnight she left smudges of white paint on my cheeks. When I tried to ask her a question she was inside a box—a wall left, right, above, oh my! When I came home from school she was painting pink eyebrows on her forehead. When I tried to hug her she squirted me with a rubber flower or knocked herself unconscious with a rubber sledgehammer or blew confetti out of a trumpet.
It’s because her parents never let her see live music when she was growing up, my father explained. It was against their religion or something. She vowed to become a clown if they didn’t let her see Elvis when he came through town back in ‘76.
My mother nodded, miming a tear sliding down her cheek with her gloved hand.
Read all about Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine here
(DENVER: Watch me read this and other clown-related stories from my forthcoming book, Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities on Sept 30 at Hampden Hall, Denver, as part of the 100, 000 Poets for Change grand finale event. I will be accompanied by the genuis of composer Nick Busheff!)
I was thrilled to be able to join the kickoff of Fbomb NYC on Friday, Sept 9, hosted by Paul Beckman and featuring myself and Bud Smith. The series is a spin-off of the Denver Fbomb, a flash fiction-based series I began in 2013. The Red Room above the KGB bar in in the East Village was a wonderful location and there was a packed house! Readers included:
Read what fellow reader A.E. Weisgerber had to say about the event here as well as a great photo slideshow of all the readers:Jane Liddle, Alice Kaltman, Loren Kleinman, Paul Beckman, Gessy Alvarez, Sara Lippman, Chuck Howe, Anne Weisgerber, Jan Elman-Stout, Jolene McIlwaine.
(Host Paul Beckman (below left), featured reader Nancy Stohlman (below right)
The readers from left to right: A.E Weisberger, (featured reader) Bud Smith, Chuck Howe, Gessy Alvarez, Jolene Mcllwaine, Jan Elman Stout, Alice Kaltman, Jane Liddle and Sara Lippman. (Not pictured Loren Kleinman.)
Nancy Stohlman 