Flash Tales, Week Nine: “Holiday Spirits”

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Evan Henry // 1 Comment

PROMPT: As we wind down the year and enter the holiday season, let’s tell a story of the holiday spirit. That spirit can be figuritive, like a strong cup of cider or the spirit of giving in O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” or literal, like the spectres that haunt Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. However you choose to take the prompt, let’s use the words SNOW, BELLS, CANDLE, and CHESTNUT.

Since it is shopping season and everyone is likely to be busy, we’ll extend the deadline for this prompt by an additional six days while we at Black Ship gear up to start our own winter holiday. Stories are due on Christmas Eve; links to the stories will be posted, along with a prompt for the New Year, on December 26.

Happy holidays, everyone!

GENRE: Open

LENGTH: < 1,200 words

DEADLINE: Wednesday, December 24, 11:59 PM

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Evan Henry is a graduate student in English at the University of Virginia, where he works on the legacy of eugenics and scientific racism in American pop culture. As Head of Publishing for Black Ship Books he seeks to further social analysis of popular culture and develop new and unique voices in both creative and critical writing. His credits include Broken Frontier, the Virginia Literary Review, and numerous small publishers of fantasy and science fiction. His short story collection The Great City will be released this summer.

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