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"The Flash!" @ NANO Fiction

1/11/2013

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Live on NANO Fiction today(ish), you can read a sort of craft essay I wrote for the publication's "State of Flash" series. I'm in a big debt to Sophie Rosenblum, NANO's web editor, for A) Inviting me to contribute to the feature, B) Being completely on board with my nigh sociopathic inability to make everything I write into some reflection on an aspect of pop culture, and C) Working with me to edit my first draft of the piece extensively, making it far better in the end product than it was in the initial execution. We also worked together on revisions of my flash fiction piece, "Dogs Playing Poker," which appeared on the site and in NANO's latest print issue late last year. 

Honestly, working with an editor who is willing to push your work to the limit and make it better is not the nuisance it's often portrayed as in, I dunno, Brenda Starr comic strips? (Struggling for a popular representation of a reporter or writer on this early morning). In my experience, it always makes the work better, transforms it into something more than it was when it was just the undiluted product of a lonely mind. I've been working on New South issue 6.1 this week, and it's my third issue, and we've worked with fiction and essay writers to do more edits  on this issue than ever before. (On my first issue, we did precious little of this, but it's only ramped up). I think this has without a doubt made the issues better. Hopefully the writers featured in the issue agree. 

In any event, "The Flash!" is a piece about the imaginative potential of very short fiction, using The Flash's ability to jump from dimension-to-dimension as an extended metaphor. It is at least one product of an adolescence spent chastely reading comic books alone in my bedroom. You can read it here, featured on NANO's homepage for a time. Permalink here.

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Hello friends.

Whatever you do or don’t believe about this time of year, it has been true for about as far back as anyone alive can figure that human beings have celebrated the darkest day of the year with a festival of light and rebirth. In our household, this year isn’t one we’ll be remembering for its light. We’ve lost a lot, so it’s all the more important to take time to celebrate what will always be here no matter how much we lose.

Our wish for you is peace, and hope, no matter what this season does or doesn’t mean to you, whether it’s happy or sad, light or dark. There is a little of all of those moods on this, the 14th almost-annual holiday playlist I’ve sent out. I hope you find something here that makes you feel a little warmer. This year we’re giving up the analog ghost. You can listen on Spotify or Tidal.

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