Being A Girl in Someone Else’s Story In workshop, writing a girl protagonist was difficult. We just don’t like her, I heard a lot about perfectly ordinary women who were maybe a little bit selfish, a little obtuse....
May Flash Roundup
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Deirdre Danklin
Deirdre Danklin holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University. Her work can be found in The Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, The Nashville Review, and Hobart, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and orange tabby cat.
April Flash Roundup
The Children of Flash I don’t like novels told from the perspective of children - they make me uncomfortable. I used to think my distaste was for their naivete or the either overly-precocious or under-developed voice...
March Flash Roundup
Prisms In my MFA workshops, sometimes, when something felt clunky or not-quite-right, someone would say, “is this just a device?” and my first thought would be: everything is a device. Life is a device. The key is...