by John Parker | Dec 15, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month I’m sharing what might loosely be considered a subgenre of fantasy fiction, Dragon Fiction. So, please enjoy a brief history of dragons in literature and some current dragon fiction to share. Dragons in Fiction Dragons have been central characters in myths...
by John Parker | Nov 17, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month, rather than sharing a genre, I’m sharing a writing form, Short Fiction, especially Flash Fiction. Short vs Flash Fiction Flash fiction is a classification of short fiction. Generally, stories with less than 7500 words (about 10 pages) are considered short...
by John Parker | Oct 19, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month’s genre to share, Science Fiction Comedy, what I prefer to call Sci-Fi Humor, is not a highly populated one, but may be as old as 1785. No joke. No time machine involved. (At least, as far as I know). From here on, I’ll refer to the genre as “comedy” since...
by John Parker | Sep 21, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month’s genre to share, supernatural fiction, rose from the traditional ghost story, and in its broad sense (which is how I have considered it here) overlaps with weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, and occult detective fiction. Sharing Great...
by John Parker | Aug 18, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month’s genre to share, military science fiction, has a heritage in a few earlier works, mostly short stories, by the likes of H. G. Wells and a few others. However, it really didn’t establish itself as a subgenre of science fiction until the 1950s. You don’t...
