Hello friends! Recently I thought I’d try my hand at some Flash Fiction. It’s a good challenge, because you have to write super tight to tell a story in 50 ,100, or 300 words. Here’s a new piece, “Exactly”, that went live on the Friday Flash Fiction zine on 9.13. Thanks folks. You can findContinueContinue reading “Exactly”
Tag Archives: Relationships
Tennessee Vintage Baseball
The Turning Point Blue versus gray, brother versus brother At Chickamauga and Vicksburg, she remained In the car, as I scoured the fields of battle, Closed my eyes and traced the flight of the cannonball Into the future Under a hackberry tree, near Sulphur Dell On a crackerjack blanket we watch Underhand bowlers and artisticContinueContinue reading “Tennessee Vintage Baseball”
Performance Art
When I teach at Watkins, I throw some Lorrie Moore at my students, from “Self-Help.” She’s a brilliant writer; this book is all second person. So, I give them the option of freewriting in second person. It’s pretty difficult, really, and I never tried it myself, until…a friend’s zine was calling for submissions based (loosely) onContinueContinue reading “Performance Art”
Short Songs Long Lives
Casting ourselves back to early 2012, this one appeared in Canopic Jar #25, http://www.canopicpublishing.com/canopicjar/25/doug1.htm (fine zine, check it out) Short Songs, Long Lives (January 2012) She sent me a note about a song she’d just written, no instruments, “simple and sorta county.” “I love my little tune,” she added. Don’t know why, but this remindedContinueContinue reading “Short Songs Long Lives”
Luck Be a Lady
Dear Readers: So, I’m going to use this blog to keep myself writing, short and long, on a regular basis. But, part of it is also about sharing published and unpublished “works” from the catalogue. Eventually I’ll post a piece or two from my past story collection (“Bothering the Coffee Drinkers”) and preview a piece or two from my upcomingContinueContinue reading “Luck Be a Lady”
Doug Hoekstra 