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...
by John Parker | Jul 20, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month’s genre to share starts much earlier in history than most we examine here. But don’t worry, we won’t tarry long in the long ago and will get to recent and current times quickly. In his best known work, Sir Thomas More envisioned a bright future for we...
by John Parker | Jun 15, 2022 | Shared Stories
Authors are frequently advised to find a genre, study it, and stick to it. And then you find a series that blows through genre barriers like a dragon through Kevlar, or in the case of this month’s feature, a ghost through a police precinct. Sharing Great Stories One...
