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Mark Budman

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Mark Budman

Writer

Author: vrflash

Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. An engineer by training, he currently works as a medical interpreter. His fiction has appeared in Catapult, Witness, World Literature Today, Mississippi Review, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney’s, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel “My Life at First Try,” published by Counterpoint, and co-editor of immigration-themed anthologies published by Ooligan Press, Persea, and the University of Chester (UK). One of his short story collections from Livingstone Press received a starred review at Kirkus and another is currently a finalist of Forward Indies 2022 Award.

Writing tidbits

vrflash, June 22, 2017

Serial monogamy: don’t be married to your first novel. Be married to the first, second…

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Condensed to Flash: World Classics

vrflash, June 20, 2017June 20, 2017

The Vestal Review Press is pleased to present the newly expanded edition of    Condensed to…

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New stories in Akashic Press

vrflash, June 20, 2017

“Coercion” and “Rent.”  

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Rejections 2.1

vrflash, May 24, 2017

Publications reject your stories not because they are bad, but because the competition is better….

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2017

vrflash, January 5, 2017

A Soviet educational movie “2017” shot in 1960. Bering Strait will be closed by a…

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How to sell your words

vrflash, December 29, 2016

It’s not important what or how well you write but who you are. Names sell…

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Story ideas

vrflash, December 29, 2016

The story ideas are like blood cells: they come to life until you die.

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Am I bright?

vrflash, November 23, 2016

Someone called me “bright.” I replied that my brightness is an optical illusion.

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baby book

vrflash, September 20, 2016

My twin granddaughters, 5 months old now (but adjusted to 3 since they were born…

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A new story

vrflash, August 3, 2016

Just wrote a story. I was laughing out loud when I was writing it. I…

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