Conference

I was only able to make it to one conference today, but it was excellent and i heard some great peices of work from three students. The first was a girl who wrote a "flash fiction" piece called flies on the wall. First off I never heard of flash fiction. It is a small chunk of story that can stand alone without any background knowledge on the charecters or what led up to the story. I like this idea as sometimes I have an idea i believe is great that would just be bogged down with any additional plot points that would just be there to serve the purpose of setting up the main idea. Anyway, this was a story about an upper income family in an undisclosed point of time that on the outside looks like a well functioning family but in reality is falling apart. I thought the title was my favorite part of this story as the story was not told through the eyes of the family, but the maids and servants who work in the estate. The second story was by someone i met while playing bass in the rocky horror picture show, but we only called him by his lastname, conrad. His was called the big and was quite possibly the most moving peice of literature I ever heard from someone in my age range. The word choice, smooth transitions of thoughts, and the ability to put unexplainable emotions into action was amazing. The third was a story called sips. It is about a girl at a party who is feeling emotions that are new to her towards a friend of hers. The writer did a great job with setting up a strong visual aspect and also threw some poetry into the story which helped strengthen the feeling of love.