Timeline: FlashBack’s Ninth Season We’ll be back in the new year with more fantastic historical flash, prose poetry and hybrid work, but in the meantime, here is a review of all the pieces we’ve published this season, in chronological order. …
BackStory: Five Questions with Veronica Montes
BackStory: Five Questions with Veronica Montes Author of Artifacts What inspired you to write ‘Artifacts’? Ticia Verveer, an archaeologist I follow on Twitter, once posted a photograph of the comb I describe in this piece. I saw it first thing…
Artifacts
Artifacts by Veronica Montes The archaeologist, I’ve noticed, cycles through the same two hundred or so photographs and stories. Tonight she will post a beaded dress from the reign of King Khufu, but this afternoon she has shared the ivory…
BackStory: Five Questions with Audra Kerr Brown
BackStory: Five Questions with Audra Kerr Brown Author of cottonmouth What inspired you to write ‘cottonmouth’? I took one of Meg Pokrass’s wonderfully fun photo-prompt workshops, and she presented a photo of a Depression era girl holding a baby. I…
cottonmouth
cottonmouth by Audra Kerr Brown ma dont sit with the baby no more not since pa caught her starin barebreasted at the lantern light found his boy beneath the feather tick pale and limp as a stillborn pig pa he…
Back Story: Five Questions with Dreena Collins
Back Story: Five Questions with Dreena Collins Author of The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain What inspired you to write this story? I came across this extraordinary story via social media, when a friend of mine,…
The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain
The (almost entirely true) Story of Jessie and the Mountain by Dreena Collins Jessie would not go. They told her that she had to move. The mountain, y mynydd, was sliding ever closer: inching and scuttling shingle and stone, until one…
BackStory: Seven Questions with Sarah Freligh
BackStory: Five Questions with Sarah Freligh Author of November What inspired you to write ‘November’? I happened on a website of photographs from the ‘60s, including several of adolescents learning the fox trot. Were there any interesting facts, details, or…
November
November by Sarah Freligh Month of mold and radiators, month when girls are marched single file into the sneaker stink of the boys’ gym where we’re sized up and partnered off, even the holy roller girls who dance with each…
BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Gethins
BackStory: Five Questions with Marie Gethins Author of Beating the Herring What inspired you to write ‘Beating the Herring’? I often pop into the Crawford Art Gallery when in town and spend a half hour of quiet bliss wandering through…