Flash Fiction for Finals

Fiction in a Flash

Call it what you will: flash fiction, microfiction, smokelongs (stories that you can read in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette). Each story in these thematically grouped collections is under 750 words. So, take a break and read. You deserve it.

These projects are the work of students in the University of Northern Iowa's Spring 2004 Beginning Fiction Writing class. If you have comments on the project as a whole, please click on my name below and let me know. Some of these stories have adult themes or language, so don't be a prude.

Thanks for reading,
Jim O'Loughlin

FLASH MORE!
Read similar projects by past classes.

2003 Edition
2001 Edition

AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT
>>Tracy St. Clair, Brittany Jungck, Chris Hewitt<<
Fate interrupts the best-laid plans and can become a domino in an unsuspecting soul's life.

SPLIT PROPOSAL
>>Crystal Meinberg, Joe Panozzo, Kim Rawson<<
Multiple Personality Disorder... how can it affect one woman's hopes and dreams for the future?

HEAT WAVE
>>Ned Kelly, Cody Reyner, Katie Davis<<
You're outside a bank on the hottest day of the year in Los Angeles. You know something is going to go wrong.

THE PRICE OF...
>>Lindsay Craig, John Vorland, Jill Blanche<<
What do a snobby rich girl, a roommate who is obsessed with The Price is Right, and a nerdy professor have in common? Absolutely nothing...until this afternoon.

BEGGING FOR QUARTERS
>>Dionne Burks, Megan Graney, Aaron Konigsmark<<
What good is a gumball machine ring you get for a quarter? Find out.


Fiction in a Flash Call it what you will: flash fiction, microfiction, smokelongs (stories that you can read in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette). Each story in these thematically grouped collections is under 750 words. So, take a break and read. You deserve it. These projects are the work of students in the University of Northern Iowa's Spring 2004 Beginning Fiction Writing class. If you have comments on the project as a whole, please click on my name below and let me know. Some of these stories have adult themes or language, so don't be a prude. Thanks for reading, Jim O'Loughlin FLASH MORE! Read similar projects by past classes. 2003 Edition 2001 Edition		AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT >>Tracy St. Clair, Brittany Jungck, Chris Hewitt<< Fate interrupts the best-laid plans and can become a domino in an unsuspecting soul's life. SPLIT PROPOSAL >>Crystal Meinberg, Joe Panozzo, Kim Rawson<< Multiple Personality Disorder... how can it affect one woman's hopes and dreams for the future? HEAT WAVE >>Ned Kelly, Cody Reyner, Katie Davis<< You're outside a bank on the hottest day of the year in Los Angeles. You know something is going to go wrong. THE PRICE OF... >>Lindsay Craig, John Vorland, Jill Blanche<< What do a snobby rich girl, a roommate who is obsessed with The Price is Right, and a nerdy professor have in common? Absolutely nothing...until this afternoon. BEGGING FOR QUARTERS >>Dionne Burks, Megan Graney, Aaron Konigsmark<< What good is a gumball machine ring you get for a quarter? Find out.