Micro Monday: Chelsea Stickle
Her prose is biting, direct, and demanding; it elicits the reader’s rapt attention and cerebral participation in her stories.
Get up, it’s MICRO MONDAY! I typically try to limit how long I make these Substack posts—since the pieces are short, I keep it short, too—but since we’ve got three pieces this week, I can be a tad more verbose.
Our featured writer for week six is Chelsea Stickle! If you’re a regular reader or writer of flash, I’m sure you’re already familiar with her prowess. Her prose is biting, direct, and demanding; it elicits the reader’s rapt attention and cerebral participation in her stories.
When I read multiple pieces submitted or published together, I always look for the links. Pieces submitted or published together don’t necessarily need a common thread, I just think it’s interesting to note when it happens. Intentional or not, these three pieces all deal in the currency of deceit. We see characters withholding, lying to themselves, sussing out the lies unsaid, and tearing off the mask binding a family’s generations of women.
I’ll leave the rest to you, dear readers.
-Vic
P.S. Don’t forget to watch Chelsea’s reading of her piece, My mother reminds me I come from a long line of shoppers—she’s a criminally, deliciously good performer: