BackStory: Six Questions with Jane Hammons Author of Oklahoma (1888) What inspired you to write this ‘Oklahoma (1888)’? What do you have in common with your main character? This story …| FlashBack Fiction
Timeline: FlashBack’s Fifteenth Season We’ve come to the end of our fifth year and fifteenth season of historical shortform writing, and what a season it has been! Huge congratulations to our two authors whose FlashBack stories were included the 2022…| FlashBack Fiction
BackStory: Five Questions with Diane Gottlieb Author of From Here to Eternity What inspired you to write ‘From Here to Eternity’? My mother-in-law is 98 years old! She lived with us until she needed memory care, and now she is…| FlashBack Fiction
From Here to Eternity by Diane Gottlieb So, I’m going to live forever. Living forever was never my plan but it must be God’s because I’m 98 and while I’ve lost a few teeth and my bladder control (keep that…| FlashBack Fiction
BackStory: Five More Questions with Marie Gethins Author of The Wife of Michael Cleary What inspired you to write ‘The Wife of Michael Cleary’? Many years ago, I walked past a school yard in Killarney, County Kerry where a group…| FlashBack Fiction
The Wife of Michael Cleary by Marie Gethins Are you a witch, or are you a fairy / Or are you the wife of Michael Cleary? We watched and waited and brought rough woollens to her for mending. Other days…| FlashBack Fiction
BackStory: Four Questions with Heain Joung Author of The Myth of an Unknown Girl What inspired you to write ‘The Myth of an Unknown Girl’? This writing is drawn from an episode of my life as a young girl from…| FlashBack Fiction
The Myth of an Unknown Girl by Heain Joung It was summer. We were going to go on a day trip to the sea. “There is no need to bring food,” my father said. “We will pick up seashells when…| FlashBack Fiction
BackStory: Five Questions with Elou Carroll Author of I Am Held in the Hands of God Who Is Named Walter Potter What inspired you to write “I Am Held in the Hands of God Who Is Named Walter Potter; or,…| FlashBack Fiction
I Am Held in the Hands of God Who Is Named Walter Potter; or, from the Case of ‘The Death and Burial of Cock Robin’ by Elou Carroll I am born again with eyes of glass. The hand of God…| FlashBack Fiction
