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Flash Fiction Tool Kit: A Miscelany of Prompts
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Dec 8, 2025
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The Origin of Images and The Poetics of Space
When approaching the imagination, it is helpful to know there are two contemporary theories of imagination.Accordion FIction: A New Approach to Flash …
Dec 5, 2025
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The Panoply of Flash: A New and Corrected Version of A Short Recap of Accordion Fiction
I selected this picture of my cat, Count Fuji, dreaming of his idealized self (an elegant stuffed cat), to illustrate the dream-state as the imagination…
Dec 4, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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Stories We Began to Tell
Some people don’t realize that my last entry referred to the newsletter where I shared a.
Nov 6, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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The Logic of the Imagination II
(note: this is a later draft)
Oct 30, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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The Logic of the Imagination
Today, I want to talk about how Stories We Began to Tell became a story.
Oct 30, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
Triggering Events & Stories We Began to Tell
While I’ve been thinking about the imagination, I’ve been looking at stories I’ve written and remembering what triggered them.
Sep 27, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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Surprising Relevance: The Periodic Table of Imagination
In these next newsletters, I want to expand on the ten tools of Accordion Fiction and talk about the story, or the melody.
Sep 18, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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Thumb Toes and True Voice
Accordion Fiction: A New Approach to Flash & Other Fictions
Aug 14, 2025
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Thaisa Frank
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Babies and The History of Voice
And How Babies Are the Experts
Aug 14, 2025
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