Flash Fiction Story 3

"Blondes Have More Fun" by Phil Gardner
http://www.philgardner.net/mfBlondes.html

Analysis: In this story Gardner continues his trend of irony. The main character is a woman who speaks about how she is going to do things to please her husband. There is basically no conflict in the story (unless you take into account the charater's gender confusion). In true flash fiction form the readers were kept in the dark till the end which brings out a bigger reaction out of them. The woman ended up being a man, it got a good reaction out of me.

Flash Fiction Story 2

"No Moon" by Phil Gardner
http://www.philgardner.net/mfMoon.html

Analysis: This flash story had a wanna be mugger or stalker and a woman as the characters.This story is one of my favorites because of the irony. Right from the beginning the author tries to establish how dark it was. The title even read "no moon" which would lead to a very dark night. With this information the reader would believe that they had the setting figured out. But like me they would be dead wrong. As the story and the conflict between the two characters came to a close I learned that the twist was that it was plain daytime. This was hilarious because the mugger took his time to be dressed totally black and be stealthy. Just to be stupid enough to pull it off in the daytime and fail. It was a good story, especially the closing line "Damn. This would've worked better at night."

Flash Fiction Story 1

"Chasing Death" by Kimberly Holt-Whitlock
http://www.wingedhalo.com/mag/chasing.html

Analysis: This short story has three characters, a little girl and her mother and father. The setting of the story is centered around the departure of a mother and the broken heart of the daughter. The obvious conflict had to be stationed around the mother and the father, but the reason is not clear. At the surface the story seems simplistic, mother leaves family. But the title and the father's last line leaves the reader to question who's chasing death. Could it be the mother leaving in a symbolic black car or the daughter chasing the black car? It's up to your interpretation.

Newborn Poem

The pains started arriving quicker and sharper.
His hand belittled by his wife's grasp.
His red face outdone by his wife's beet red face.

"Hang in there honey, we're almost there,"he assured her.
But he himself was nervous and drenched in sweat.
There was nothing he could but let the ambulance reach it's destination.

The ambulace stopped and they poured out in seconds.
The soon to be mother was rushed to a room .
While her husband followed ready to show his support.

"BREATH!!, take deep breaths."
With the final push little cries could be heard .
Mother and father rejoice for they have within their lives a baby girl.