My exclusive Patreon content for February collects excerpts from the beginnings of five new stories.
As I do annually, during January and February, I participated in the Codex contest Weekend Warrior run by Vylar Kaftan. Participants write one piece of flash fiction each weekend.
The stories in the Example Sampler are:
“Thing about Timeline Collapse I Decided Not to Post” based on the prompt: write about someone moving who doesn’t want to.
“An Alphabetical Guide to Potential Building Materials for Aspiring Urban Planners” based on the prompt: what is your kingdom made of?
“The Letters You Lost” based on a suggested title.
“Dear Awesomest Uncle Zarny” based on the prompt: write a letter to an imaginary relative for a special occasion.
“The Thing about Things,” theoretically based on the prompt: choose a random wikipedia page… although I ended up meandering onto an unrelated subject.
(I released the full text of my week two story, “An Alphabetical Guide to Potential Building Materials for Aspiring Urban Planners,” on my Patreon in January.)
These were a lot of fun. I seem to be playing a lot with humor right now! Maybe it’s reading all that Wodehouse and Adams.
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Thanks for the catch! And, I have no idea whatsoever what a rubric's cube would be or would do. But…