{"id":37,"date":"2022-12-08T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2023-05-15T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:47:57","slug":"short-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexmstein.com\/index.php\/short-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Black Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I won an Art of Creative Unity award from the International Human Rights Arts Festival for my personal essay &#8220;Black Water.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may be the most important thing I&#8217;ve ever written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihraf.org\/blackwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Someday, A Village (But Not Yet)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Quibble Literary Magazine just published a brand-new piece of flash fiction of mine called &#8220;Someday, A Village (But Not Yet).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quibblelit.com\/someday-a-village-by-baptism-alex-m-stein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Every Day Fiction (Bite-Sized Stories For a Busy World) just published a brand-new piece of flash fiction of mine called &#8220;Rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everydayfiction.com\/rain-by-alex-m-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: This is the shorter version (three-minute read).  There&#8217;s a slightly longer version that I may post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Open Road<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Red Noise Collective published a piece of flash creative nonfiction of mine called &#8220;The Open Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">R<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">a<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">d<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">i<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">t<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">h<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rednoisecollective.com\/the-open-road\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Leon Literary Review published a new piece of flash fiction I wrote called &#8220;Final Project.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonliteraryreview.com\/issue-17-alex-m-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Petrichor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Bend Literary Magazine published my personal essay &#8220;Petrichor&#8221; (and to save you a trip to the dictionary, petrichor is the sickly sweet smell you get when it rains after a long dry period).  This piece is accompanied by wonderful art by Kerri Menchaca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigbendliterary.com\/issues\/issue-four\/petrichor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thin Ice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Quibble Literary Magazine published a very short personal essay of mine called &#8220;Thin Ice.&#8221;  I was thinking about ice forming on the pond Tjornin in central Reykjavik, Iceland when I wrote this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quibblelit.com\/thin-ice-by-alex-stein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For Carolyn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking a lot about my late friend Carolyn earlier this year and wrote a piece about her that appeared in the Bookends Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss her and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/thebookendsreview.com\/2022\/07\/20\/carolyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read the piece here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Water I won an Art of Creative Unity award from the International Human Rights Arts Festival for my personal essay &#8220;Black Water.&#8221; This may be the most important thing I&#8217;ve ever written. 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