title: Writing Genre Flash Fiction the Minimalist Way: A Self Study Book
author: Michael A. Kechula
description: In 1978, Michael A. Kechula received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the IBM Corporation for his innovative approach in developing online, self-study training courses for employees of IBM and Fortune 500 companies. Two of his IBM-published technical reports on training methods were selected by the US Department of Education for inclusion on their ERIC system (Educational Resources Information Center), the worlds largest digital library of education literature. In 1992, he was named IBMs premier developer of self-study books and self-study online courses in the Western United States. Since switching to fiction in 2002, over 450 of his flash fiction stories have been published by 134 magazines and 41 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and United States. Hes won 1st prize in 12 writing contests and 2nd prize in 8 others. Hes won Editors Choice awards 4 times. His flash fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. Hes taught dozens of novelists and short story writers how to write flash fiction and micro-fiction. Kechula has been Flash Fiction Submissions Editor for 5 online and print magazines and is the moderator of FlashXer, a Yahoo writing site that focuses on developing flash and micro-fiction for publication.
zlib_text: Lesser Things
  Book One of OMNI Corp
   
  By E.M. Lindsey
  
  Lesser Things
  E.M. Lindsey
  Copyright © 2019
   
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
  may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
  without the express written permission of the publisher
  except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
   
  This book is a work of fiction.  Any events, places, or people portrayed in the book have been used in
  a manner of fiction and are not intended to represent reality.  Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
  
  “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the
  stars.”
  -Og Mandino
  
  Author’s Note
   
  Dear Readers,
   
  There’s something definitely anxiety-inducing about taking a leap into a genre in which you read,
  but have never written.  The OMNI Corp series was borne of many conversations and ideas with
  people who have become invaluable to me during the writing process.  E.M. Denning and Kate
  Hawthorne in particular, chee