Living the Fictional Dream

Erin M. Kinch’s musings upon the writing profession

A New Story Released

August 03rd, 2008 | Category: My Stories, Writing group

If you’re in the mood for a little fantasy flash, check out my story in the new issue of AlienSkin e-zine. It’s called “The Mad King.”

I love the graphic of the king that they used. He’s so snooty!

I wrote this story back in February. My writing group runs a monthly prompts contest, and I wrote enough prompts that month to win the prize. This was one of the stories that I wrote. Though, it was edited. I actually took out all but one of the words required for the prompt in the final version. But, that’s the way prompts are sometimes. They get your mind going in a good way, but the actual mechanics (must-use words, starter sentences, etc.) aren’t the best choices in the final version.

So, enjoy, and if you like it, leave me a comment!

5 Comments so far

  1. Gay Degani August 3rd, 2008 7:41 pm

    Noce job on the Mad King, Erin. I enjoyed it. You just keep trucking on, don’t you, one good story after another!

  2. emkinch August 3rd, 2008 7:51 pm

    Thanks so much, Gay. Glad you liked it. :-) It was a random little piece, so it was very heartening to find it a home.

  3. kcball August 4th, 2008 8:57 am

    Great piece of flash, Erin. I liked the turtles bit; just the sort of thing to show how crazy and out of touch he was.

    WTG!

  4. Alexander Burns August 5th, 2008 6:36 am

    That is excellent work. I love the illustration as well.

  5. emkinch August 5th, 2008 9:53 am

    K.C. and Alex — thanks so much! I’m glad y’all enjoyed it. It’s funny how something you toss off quickly can be as good as or better than some things you slave away over. That always amazes me.

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