A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor needs no introduction. It’s one of the most celebrated short stories of all time. When Grandma (unnamed) decides she would rather go to Tennessee than Florida after she reads about a serial killer going there. Against her better judgment, Grandma goes ahead on the trip.…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket The world has gone completely mad. But of course you knew that. What you didn’t know is exactly how mad. Case in point: Check out this recent news clipping from the LA Times. This is what the article tells you. What the article doesn’t tell you is that this was no…
Magabala Books Australia – Novels, Non-fiction, YA, Kid’s, Indigenous magabala.com.au magabala.com.au/pages/publishing pubadmin@magabala.com WINNER – Australian Book Industry Awards/Small Publisher of the Year, 2024 New submissions begin Feb. 1 Magabala Books is Australia’s leading Indigenous publishing house. Aboriginal owned and led, they celebrate and nurture the talent and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.…
by Philip Loyd… “In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning…” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up But seriously. Have you ever noticed? 3AM? It comes around once every day. Without fail. In fact, it comes around so quietly, you hardly even know it’s there. Long before I…
Cannibal by Chuck Palahniuk first appeared in Playboy Magazine in May 2013… #ChuckPalahniuk While best known for his novels like Fight Club and Choke, Chuck is also a prolific author of short stories, many of which have appeared in major magazines like Playboy. Romance, Zombie and Cannibal are three, just to name a few. Chuck…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket I used to live with this actress girl, years ago when I was young. She was diabetic, had to take insulin shots every day. I couldn’t stand needles, couldn’t stand even watching. It was a good thing she had no problem injecting herself. The diabetes made her tired. She took naps…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket Once after going on a 9-day drinking binge I thought I needed to sober up. So I did. After just one day of sobriety, what I needed most was a drink. Being drunk must be better than being sober, I concluded. Everyone knows you make better decisions when you’re sober, than…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket That’s right, your beloved founder Philip Loyd is now doing his crazy Flashbytes thing on, of all places, Forbes. Philip on Forbes. And about whom? What? Hamilton? Franklin? Not hardly. How about William Duer? Huh? Exactly. William Duer and the great Wall Street crash of 1792. Come check out The Panic,…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket When a woman is in love with you, I said, nothing can change her mind. But when she falls out of love, she would just as soon leave you bleeding in the middle of the road. Not my Betty Sue, he said. My Betty Sue would take pity on me. I…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket You may know him better as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, but his real name was Fedor Jeftichew. Fedor was a famous Russian sideshow performer who toured Europe with his father, the ‘Wild Man from the Kostroma Forest’, in 1873 and was brought to the United States of America in 1884 by…
