text: As Serial Saturday here on has concluded, all that’s left to do is spotlight our fantastic authors. It’s been such a treat to watch people evolve their flash fiction serials with us and bring arcs to a close that have been with us for quite a while. For a good handful of writers on Serial Saturday, their stories are continuations of serials started on Theme Thursday weekly threads. One such story comes from /u/LitcityBlues. LitCity’s focus on research and keeping his story true to its setting and context was a highlight of this serial. That focus helped ground us in the story, and make it feel that much grittier and more immersive. But don't take my word for it! Here's a small teaser: >Living in Kinmen, murder is rare- but when the daughter of the local party boss from Mainland China just across the water is found on a beach in Kinken with a knife in her belly, it’s up to Detective Pei-Shan and Officer Wei-Ting to solve a murder that’s a landmine of political problems just waiting to explode. Finding the truth, however, turns out to be more complicated and dangerous than either of them were expecting. For our first run of Serial Saturday at it was important for us to get author impressions of how their experience went with us, and give readers a peek at the "behind the scenes" of creating a flash fiction serial. Here's u/LitcityBlues’s take on that: >This began life as a Theme Thursday over on r/writingprompts for the theme ‘Vulnerability’ and I remembered learning about various political crises over the Taiwan Straits in college and remembered Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu- but I didn’t realize just how close to China Kinmen actually was. I couldn’t imagine living in a place- that to me, anyway, seemed like it would feel vulnerable *all the time*. > >A simple five hundred word prompt response and the feedback I got demanded more story and then more story and then suddenly I was migrating from Writing Prompts to Short Stories for Serial Saturday and 22 parts later, it was done. I *loved* all the feedback that I got-- and I’d like to think that I at least absorbed *some* of it. This story also taught me the importance of research. Never having been to China, this piece required a ton of homework and I hope, in the end, that I at least captured some essence of the place and the people who live there. With the tale of *Murder In Kinmen* at an end there is only one thing left to do: show off this newly finished story for obligatory bragging rights here on . Let the bragging begin! Without further ado, here's u/LitcityBlues’s Table of Contents. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **TABLE OF CONTENTS** \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ You can check out more of u/LitcityBlues's work by going to their subreddit, r/LitcityBlues. Congrats on finishing your serial, LitCity, and we can’t wait to see what you do next. <3 from the team at , , and Serial Saturday. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ *For more information on the Serial Saturday program feel free to check out our* *.* We have members from all around the world and who have all kinds of schedules, so there’s usually someone awake to talk to. We also have scheduled readings, oration critiques, spur-of-the-moment story time, or even just random hangouts over voice chat.