A few years ago Literary Juice published an extremely short piece of mine. The magazine appears to have closed so here it is for your entertainment.
I stepped into the oncoming traffic, turned to face the cars and raised my hand. They all swerved except the one driven by a human.
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For those of you that enjoy flash fiction, why not take a look at Flash-Frontier. Not just because I have a story in the latest edition Doors, although I do, but because it’s online and jam packed with great flashes.
My piece is called Yours or Mine? and is only 250 words, which is less than a 2 minute read so as you can imagine, it gets straight to the point.
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Inventing characters, their motivations and their development in a world that is futuristic takes a bit of thought. As some famous non-science fiction authors have shown when they turn their hand to the genre it takes more than a few bits of wizzy technology and a simple twist of history to create a believable story.
So, it’s always a pleasure to come across new techniques for creating and developing characters and worlds. But, that’s only one of the reasons I enjoyed the “bentoism” of Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. It’s also a good way of getting perspective on life and its many complex choices.
What is it? Well, in essence you weigh up the pluses and minuses of a decision for the now you, the now us, the future you and the future us.
There’s more about it on the bentoism website and you can hear him being interviewed on the Futures Podcast.
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