Shining Moon Episode 25: When the Fic is Quick I

Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 25, Flash Fiction: When the Fic is Quick. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. With me today are Kat Day and Michael Haynes as we’ll discuss the art of writing flash fiction—stories that are under 1,000 words in length. Let’s get started with some introductions.

Kat Day is an editor and writer who lives in Oxfordshire. By day, she works as a medical editor, looks after her two children and wrangles the PseudoPod Towers tentacles into producing horror stories every week. By night she... does all the things she hasn't managed to do during the day. Her work has been published at venues including Flash Fiction Online, Cast of Wonders and Daily Science Fiction, and she writes regular flash for her blog, thefictionphial.wordpress.com.

Michael Haynes is an ardent short story reader and writer, who has had stories appear in periodicals such as Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Nature. His debut short fiction collection, AT THE INTERSECTION OF LOVE AND DEATH, is available now. He serves on the board of Rainbow Dublin, an LGBTQIA+ advocacy group, and enjoys photography, cooking, and travel. His website is http://michaelhaynes.info/
Stories discussed in this episode:
Kat Day
“Never Enough Pockets,” PseudoPod 798: Flash on the Borderlands LX: Words Like Violence

Michael Haynes

"1-800-Prophcy" Stupefying Stories, https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/09/1-800-prophcy-by-michael-haynes.html

“A Book in Winter,” Factor Four, https://factorfourmag.com/a-book-in-winter-by-michael-haynes/

Other folks
“The Inheritance of Dust and Leather,” by Jenny Rae Rappaport., Lightspeed, September 2022. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-inheritance-of-dust-and-leather/
“Choose Your Own” by C.J. Lavigne, Daily Science Fiction, https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/c-j-lavigne/choose-your-own
“My Summer of George,” by Sam Rebelein, PseudoPod 888: Flash on the Borderlands LXVIII: Actualization

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

Piano music for closure

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