My publisher, Harmony Ink Press, began posting flash fiction from Harmony Ink authors in honor of the Day of Silence on Friday, April 19th.
If you’re not familiar with the Day of Silence, it’s an annual protest that’s been held every year since 1996, when it was started by then-student Maria Pulzetti as a protest against bullying and harassment of LGBT students. As stated in the wikipedia article, “Students take a day-long “Vow of silence” to symbolically represent the silencing of LGBT students and their supporters.”
Harmony Ink decided it would be cool to have participating authors write a flash fiction piece symbolizing silence in some way. Mine was a modified excerpt from the third novel in the Dreams of Fire and Gods trilogy (called Gods), which is still being written. You can read it by clicking on the image above.
You might ask, “Why did you wait until the 24th to post this, if the Day of Silence was on the 19th?” Basically, I didn’t post until today because I was at a workshop with my publisher in Chicago over the weekend and between that and traveling, things have just been too chaotic for me. Also, due to the large number of submissions Harmony Ink received, my story wasn’t put on the website until this afternoon.
I’ll close this post with a picture snapped at the workshop of some of the Harmony Ink authors in attendance: Me (James Erich, looking like I just stepped out of the shower, because I had), Robbie Michaels, Madison Parker, Nessa Warrin (YA Coordinator), Jamie Mayfield, and Geoff Laughton.
James Erich 