Author Archives: LynnAlexander

Winter 2012

  Blink Ink #9 is out and the Special Noir Issue, and we are busy prepping the next issue for January 2012. Blink Ink is a quarterly printed publication of short fiction, available by subscription and soon to be available … Read the rest of this entry

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Latest Issues

Blink Ink #6 and #7 are out, with the special noir issue on the way. Blink Ink is a printed quarterly publication edited by Doug Mathewson, produced by Lynn Alexander for Full Of Crow. Blink|Ink remains one of Full Of … Read the rest of this entry

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Special Noir Issue: Submissions Wanted

Blink-Ink announces it’s unannounced special issue: “Blink-Noir” Send us your darker short fiction, art work and photography. Submissions should be approximately fifty words in length. Art and photos: black & white please. There is no reading fee and hence no … Read the rest of this entry

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“Inevitable”

Blink Ink is a printed quarterly publication, featuring fiction snapshots, blinks and vignettes of about 50 words. Now and then, we add some of the stories to the web. These are pieces by Sweta Srivastava Vikram. “Inevitable” 1) When Maya … Read the rest of this entry

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Blink Ink #5

blink|ink #5 Full Of Crow Press is proud to announce that Blink Ink Issue #5 is available! Subscribers and contributors will get their copies by mail. Cover and Photography by Kristin Fouquet, fiction edited by Doug Mathewson, produced by Lynn … Read the rest of this entry

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Works Every Time

Breathe deep, shut your eyes, do not move. Cannot sleep. Get up, drink some milk, go back to bed. Cannot sleep. Turn again, count sheep, empty thoughts. Cannot sleep. Hug John, be still, hold your breath. PINCH, PINCH, PINCH JOHN! … Read the rest of this entry

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The Secret

It was a supposedly foolproof cake; a blind, one-handed monkey with an inclination for cooking could make it. I flushed the mud-like gooey blobs down the toilet and ran out to the bakery. Thirty minutes until he comes home. Five … Read the rest of this entry

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..Cleaned

Ghost shiver swaying left and right as the blood in the streets congeals and forms the image of a heart, bleeding its parkeetish ideals on the passing feet of paporatzing dined incarnates who bow with and only with the world … Read the rest of this entry

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The Sneeze

His dumping line was something unoriginal. I sneezed. He left. The virus I gave him with that sneeze is lying dormant, waiting for a good day to multiply and drown him in his own blood. No one will know that … Read the rest of this entry

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Our final attempt

We drive down from the cold mountains at night because the heat of the day in the desert will kill us. Any songs we memorize as we travel are forgotten beneath the sand where we bury ourselves in our final … Read the rest of this entry

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