Made me think of being a teenager and going through my parents stuff when they weren’t home to find and steal their weed. Fortunately I never found anything that insinuated they were murderers, but my step dad wasn’t even into Iron Maiden. More of a Bob Seger guy. 😉 I like the idea of these micro fictions but sometimes they leave me wanting more. Kudos for getting me invested in a 3 or 4 minute read.
A good friend and I used to joke that his dad only could say 6 words, and Seger was one of them. But anyways - the microfictions sometimes serve as the jumping off point for longer pieces.
A Lunch Date Gone Wrong, Friends on the Town, and Today at the Amusement Park (none of which are posted on Substack) were the basis for episodes 8, 12, and 13 in my serial novel…which IS on Substack…called “You’re Not Gonna Like It.”
A Dinner Party - which is at https://bryanwiler.substack.com/p/a-dinner-party - was the basis for a story called Something Special. I submitted it last December during an open call for a holiday horrors anthology being curated by Chuck Palahniuk and it made the final 45 out of over 2,100 submissions, but ultimately didn’t get selected for publication. I’m still sitting on that one trying to find a new home rather than dropping it on Substack, which would mean many publishers won’t accept it anymore because it would be “previously published” (silly).
Looking back at the dozens of microfictions, there’s a ton of material that could be longer with a bit of work. It kind of depends on what I’m feeling at the moment. I’m glad some of them hooked you with just a few hundred words!
Made me think of being a teenager and going through my parents stuff when they weren’t home to find and steal their weed. Fortunately I never found anything that insinuated they were murderers, but my step dad wasn’t even into Iron Maiden. More of a Bob Seger guy. 😉 I like the idea of these micro fictions but sometimes they leave me wanting more. Kudos for getting me invested in a 3 or 4 minute read.
A good friend and I used to joke that his dad only could say 6 words, and Seger was one of them. But anyways - the microfictions sometimes serve as the jumping off point for longer pieces.
A Lunch Date Gone Wrong, Friends on the Town, and Today at the Amusement Park (none of which are posted on Substack) were the basis for episodes 8, 12, and 13 in my serial novel…which IS on Substack…called “You’re Not Gonna Like It.”
A Dinner Party - which is at https://bryanwiler.substack.com/p/a-dinner-party - was the basis for a story called Something Special. I submitted it last December during an open call for a holiday horrors anthology being curated by Chuck Palahniuk and it made the final 45 out of over 2,100 submissions, but ultimately didn’t get selected for publication. I’m still sitting on that one trying to find a new home rather than dropping it on Substack, which would mean many publishers won’t accept it anymore because it would be “previously published” (silly).
Looking back at the dozens of microfictions, there’s a ton of material that could be longer with a bit of work. It kind of depends on what I’m feeling at the moment. I’m glad some of them hooked you with just a few hundred words!