Here’s the story in 99 words: NCJ’s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest is on. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links) to fiction@northcoastjournal.com with your name and contact information (no pen names) by midnight Oct. 31. Dainty dramas, bite-sized adventures, flits of fantasy, micro-mysteries, half-pint hauntings, brief romances […]
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Flash Fiction
99 Words on 99 Words We’ve been flashed. You, Humboldt, flashed us with your fiction, conjuring in just 99 words the key elements: character, setting, conflict, plot and theme. Characters: We meet a hungry dragon, a tactless apostle, an inebriated orange glutton. Settings: We visit a Vegas motel, an island cemetery, the Arcata Co-op. Conflict: […]