Flash Fiction Analysis

Making shapely fiction by Jerome stern actually taught me a lot more about writing than I anticipated. Before I read the chapters I needed to read I had already written my flash fiction. After I finished all my pages I quickly went back to my flash fiction and change everything that I saw that I did wrong, since I just learned it in the book. For example, in my flash fiction I had my character express thinking and her thoughts. Before reading this book, I was unaware that one didn’t have to put it in quotation marks when expressing a thought. Therefore, I quickly went and changed it.

Halloweentown is a fantasy land overflowing with ghosts, vampires, and witches. Jack is the leader of this town and is known as the “Pumpkin King”. Jack realizes he has grown tired of the same routine, and is faced with an identity crisis.

The flash fiction selection I chose for my performance is the story Mythologies written by R. L. Futrell. I chose this story initially because of the title, having an interest in most cultures ' mythologies and stories I started to read the story. However, upon reading the story I was drawn in by the world surrounding the text. A single paragraph of context is all that is given about why the story is being told. The rest is dedicated to a boring drive to West Virginia and the trivialities of the expedition and the sights, smells, and sounds of the world around them. The apparent lack of a central message is what really drew me towards the story.

The loud buzz of the intercom whines throughout the school, announcing the event of the day, at least in our eyes. “... like math? Don’t forget to attend the Fall Outreach at Lupine Hills Elementary School!” and the silent apprehension of the day is met with cheers from the “nerds” in the classroom. We call out one of the perks of volunteering in outreaches: “C’mon guys, you get community service hours!” Flash-forward to later in the evening. We begin with “spookifying” the room, placing pumpkins that were carved with an array of faces, from the kawaii to the frightening. The elementary school principal loves it. The students eyes are caught in the heat of a dollar bill that seems to be burning, but is left untouched by the flames. A pair to the left have their hands sticky with the scientific phenomenon of “oobleck”, smashing cornstarch and cleaning fluid into heavy balls and then letting it drip like honey through their fingers. Across the room are children covering their ears and giggling at the squeaky noises dry ice makes when in contact with metal. Even more are ogling at the cookies and cream ice cream made from the dry ice, the show stopper of the

Once a upon a time here was a little girl named Abby with brown lushness hair and blue crystal eyes , all of her clothing that she wears is all ripped up with holes in her shirt and her pants, only 8 all by herself with no family in the spring. Abby's dog that has green sparkly eyes and White fur that she finds on the street that is named Pumpkin. Abby and Pumpkin lives in a dark alley with shadows all around. Pumpkin and Abby only sleep on an old sofa sometimes they get scared. One day she wanted to go exploring. Pumpkin tagged along.

Mac Hammond is able to use colorful words, such as butcher knife, throughout “Halloween” that brings the reader closer to the poem. Halloween is a nostalgic holiday for most people and there are specific words that will trigger those memories. Hammond exclaims, “The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top / And carves out the round stemmed lid” (1-2). There are numerous words used just in these two lines that can connect us with the poem. No one can talk about Halloween or pumpkins without the word carved involved. Whenever one starts to carve a pumpkin, they have to carve out that circle at the top so the center can be accessed. Hammond does a great job of painting that picture by using the words such as “carves”,

There was a word on the page. There was a sentence on the page. There was a paragraph on the page. And then two. Three. A full page was written. A chapter completed. Maybe there was something to this sitting at a desk with a bottle of whiskey and just plugging away. The night had passed, the sun was up, and suddenly, 10,000 words were committed to paper. He had started in the middle of things. November 13th to be exact. The first year Tony participated in the community writing project, he was 39. That was five years ago now. The first novel was a piece of trash, not even pulp fiction, a murder mystery wherein a dead pregnant girl turned up quite alive and everyone lived happily ever after in the end. Complete swill. Written in the darkness of a bedroom with no windows after his day job, with snow on the ground and the life of his family going on around him outside his miserable cave.

''Start vibrating it will warm you up.'' Said Cisco, barely giving any look to his friend before running over to Caitlin.

After reading the four assigned flash nonfiction pieces they are different from the longer pieces that we have read because the plot is right to the point of the piece. I notice that in the nonfiction piece the plot is easier for the reader to know before getting to the end. In my opinion, the flash pieces have more energy because writing in short words the author has to be able to communicate more effectively and being able to get all of their thoughts. I think they have a greater effect on the reader because of it more intense and easy to follow along.

The length and the plot play a big role in the flash fiction requirments. According to our class fiction requirements, a flash fiction should

Francine Prose's short fictional piece, "Pumpkins," was about a therapist who was having an epiphany, with how this sudden incident that has happened in town, affects him so greatly. The short piece also played with the significance of the pumpkin in an interesting way. One thing that I noticed in my first read of Prose’s short piece was that it has a very serious and heavy tone. For example, just within the first two lines, “There was a terrible accident. A truck full of Halloween pumpkins is speeding…”. As well as the beginning sentence of paragraph two. The second thing that I had noticed in Prose’s piece was that the story was being told through the therapist perspective. Although it took me several reads to catch this, each time I read

I really enjoyed the graphic novel aspect of the book, it brings up a unique perspective of things. Being able to visually understand what is happening helps your brain process the deep message throughout the book. It gives you a better sense of imagery to better understand the tone of the author alongside his ideals/viewpoints. It also starts off very strong, the book is abruptly introduced to the "movement" and the scene first shown to us gets the reader confused almost as it goes from quiet room to a major bombing. It grabbed my attention quickly, and made me continue reading. The next scene of the white teenagers who yell "We don't want to integrate" moves along the overall theme of the book and quickly makes me more interested. After reading

In this picture the dogs looked scary,and the pumpkins were fake. They have straight faces as if they were mad. The pumpkins screamed “eat me”. Also the dog looks like Abraham Lincoln. The ones that look like male dogs stared at me. The maron matched Mary’s much berries merciful. Next the leaves in the background were beautiful. They have clothes on as if they were people. The pumpkin was as green as a water melon. A dog, a person, was dressed up as a Pilgrim.

My fourth point of validation is if people can’ create books, they’ll just create something like a book, but doesn’t meet the requirments of being a book. So they’ll just recreate the stories in the books, just without using the books. I mean, a scroll works just as well as a book.

Within the first pages of the book you meet ralph. Ralph is described only as