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Category: Fiction

This fiction category showcases Kimberly Parish Davis’ fiction publications. In some cases the stories mentioned are available to read here, but in the case of competitions, the stories are yet to be published, and therefore are not available to read here. If somethings sounds interesting and you’d like a private copy to read, get in touch!

Child looking skyward from the cockpit of a white cardboard airplane

The Magic Airplane

Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by Kim

“Her Daddy had promised her the airplane would fly and that she would be able to use it any time she liked to fly to him.”

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HEader for the Cinematic's Short Story ScreenCraft Competition

Screenwriting?

Posted on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 by Kim

Cinematic short stories can lead to screenwriting Screenwriting is not an area I’ve been brave enough to compete in before, but over the last few months, recognizing that I’ve been writing a lot more than I’ve been submitting, I tried submitting to this one on a lark. I feel vindicated in my writing that somebody…

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Taking Stock

Posted on September 17, 2020March 25, 2021 by Kim

I’m taking stock of what I’ve written during the pandemic.

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Three Publications in a Week

Posted on September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 by Kim

It’s a rare week to receive printed proof that someone thought enough of it to include it next to other people’s work they thought enough of to publish in a journal. So I was triply delighted this week when not one, but three publications I’ve been waiting for appeared in my mailbox. They are: A…

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A row of porta-potties sets the scene for Kimberly Parish Davis' short story, "A Simple Twist of Fate"

A Simple Twist of Fate

Posted on April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 by Kim

“A Simple Twist of Fate” is going to appear in Kestrel! “A Simple Twist of Fate” is my latest short story, and it has just been accepted for publication by Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art. It will be included in Issue 43, which will be out by September 1 at the latest the…

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Pat and Princess

Micro-fiction 50-Word Story

Posted on March 19, 2020April 23, 2020 by Kim

Writing micro-fiction is an act of puzzle making. Micro-fiction is a style I have been uncertain about trying, so this publication came as a total surprise. I wrote this 50-word story last week at the prompting of Siobhan Wright who has been running an online writers workshop at TellUsAStory.org. The culmination of this particular prompt…

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Workshopping from comfy chair with kitten helper

Continuing to Workshop

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Kim

My life is pretty chaotic. I am a publisher, sometimes professor, mother, and wife. I have a house full of animals to care for and an acre of land to “husband.” My kids are grown, but they still turn to me to sort stuff out. And until recently, I had at least one aging parent…

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Daddy in Bracketville

NYC Midnight FF Challenge 2019

Posted on September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by Kim

It’s that time of year again. The results have just come in for the first round of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction challenge. My stories do a little better each year. Honestly, I’d like to be challenged this way on a weekly basis. No telling how fast I might improve… “Bracketville, Texas, November 1964,” placed…

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my trophy for winning a weekly flash fiction competition. It's a gold moth mounted on a wooden base that says "approves."

Long Lost Story

Posted on September 8, 2019September 12, 2019 by Kim

I just came across a long lost story! I never knew this micro-story I wrote won a prize. I was looking for the judge’s name from a previous story of mine that won a prize (“The Understanding”), when I stumbled across another flash piece I’d obviously sent them that was chosen top story that week…

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Do You Know the Bunny Hop?

Posted on May 29, 2019July 15, 2019 by Kim

“Do You Know the Bunny Hop?” Origins I wrote “Do You Know the Bunny Hop?” for a competition in which it placed but was not published. I don’t remember the entire prompt, and I’d have to search to figure out who sponsored that original competition. I was attracted to the idea of writing about someone…

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