Author: Jim Bartlett

I was fortunate to have a new story go up this morning on FFF. I hope you enjoy –

The Bottom Line

My little story, Who’ll Stop the Rain?, was honored with the “Editor’s Choice” award. “Ah shucks,” he says, shuffling his feet…

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/wholl-stop-the-rain-by-jim-bartlett

Normally I try to avoid writing topically, at least to a degree, but I found myself wandering down this path yet again (the subject is too commonplace) and this came up on a sort of whim.

I threw in some music, and the published did a nice job with the presentation.

Hope you enjoy –

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/wholl-stop-the-rain-by-jim-bartlett

A wish for a very wonderful Mother’s Day to all of the marvelous moms. Without you, we quite literally would not be here!

I had a longer story go up on Spillwords today, and while it is about a mom, I had not written it with Mother’s Day in mind. Spillwords, as it would seem, had other ideas…

I hope you enjoy –

Stand By Me

I was fortunate to have another short little story go up this morning. Hope you enjoy –

Intelligent Design

My story, Offsides, won the picture prompt contest. Thanks to Friday Flash Fiction for the nice little honor.

Not having written anything in a while, and never having written a story that was based on a picture prompt, I was intrigued by a contest set up by Friday Flash Fiction using the premise of writing a story based on a picture. In this case it is of the son of one of the FFF authors who passed away a couple of years back with a rare form of cancer. Despite his fight, he had achieved his lifelong dream of becoming an Ump in the NFL. Here is my story –

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/offsides-by-jim-bartlett

And here’s the picture for the story’s prompting –

Thank goodness 2021 is behind us.

Wait…didn’t we all say the same thing about 2020?

UGH…

Well, enough said about that! I was fortunate to have another short story go up on Friday Flash Fiction today. Hope you enjoy –

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/the-stalker-by-jim-bartlett

Something I’ve been trying to do is submit a story for the Spillwords’ 12 Days of Christmas feature, and this year was no exception. This year, however, time got away from me (life just keeps getting in the way) and I was unable to include some suggested changes. Que sera, so they say. With that, here is my story – much, much longer than my regular scheduled programing –

A Chocolate Milkshake for Christmas

Here’s my 100-word Christmas story for this year –

https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/mele-kalikimaka-by-jim-bartlett