6th Flash-Style Flash Fiction Battle
Two New Challengers Enter the Ring
Greetings, Greetings, Greetings! Fellow word worms and pulse punchers!
Our two writers for our sixth battle are both seasoned drivers.
has made one of the most audacious Substack entrances of 2025, dropping his novel, The WayBack Machine, as a serial for Paid Subscribers on his Substack. He then dropped a four-part series about an expat in Moscow who spirals from alienation into uneasy integration. And his latest series of visually framed rap performances of disses of literary figures has revved up the combative energy on Substack. His record breaking diss of another Substack writer crystallized the metaphor most clearly.Meanwhile,
, one of the most diverse genre and literary writers on Substack, has been writing this year like a drag racer who rebuilt his engine out of grief, duct tape, and dream logic. A few examples of races are his recent story, “Insomnia”, his “Riot in His Veins” series, the dark humor jewel, “The Future is Cancelled”, and his ‘Ever Dream this Man’ series. His writing grips the wheel of absurdity with white-knuckled precision, flooring it through surreal landscapes and careening into cosmic metaphors at 300mph. His stories launch off the line with humor but redline into heartbreak, each session a quarter-mile of confessions wrapped in fire. He doesn’t flinch when the engine rattles—he thrives on it.The date:
Friday, April 25th
Vs.
The prompt: 3:00 PM (EST)
This is when the moderator starts the chat and helps the chat come up with the prompts that are then voted on anonymously.
The story vote: 6:00 PM (EST)
The Moderator will be
You have to be subscribed to Flash-Style and part of the chat to vote.
Both writers’ camps have read the rules and agreed to the details.
The more detailed rules of engagement for the fight to be found in this post.
See ya there, or be square!
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Flash-Style Flash Fiction Battle Founder Rants about:
Fake Top in 100 Fiction List
Slow Writers
Writer Cliques
Writers as manipulators
The Battle is Honest
Can’t wait!
Can’t find a lie.