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#FridayFlash Self-Possession
I have a 300 word flash up on the #amwriting site today. It’s called Self-Possession. It was written in response to one of the paintings on view at the Irish Writers Centre. (Full details on my guest post). If you can’t post a comment there I’d love to have your thoughts here. Update: I’ve added…
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Help Michael’s dream to walk
My eldest son’s classmate in St. Cronan’s school, Bray, Co. Wicklow is Michael Tiron. Eleven year old Michael has Cerebral Palsy and has been in a wheelchair since the age of three. He has just been accepted for a significant operation in the USA in St. Louis Children’s Hospital which will give him greater mobility…
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Flash 365 plus 1
Calum Kerr the organiser of National Flash Fiction day is also writing a flash a day on his Flash 365 blog. With this, Feb 29 being a bonus day, he has got lots of us to provide the bonus day stories on his blog including one of mine to be put up. With some great…
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#fridayflash Ice cream dreams
It’s been quite a while since I did #fridayflash. Here’s one with some of the characters from Origami Flamingos. All day the ice cream van was circling. Ice dream van. Rat catchers, child snatchers from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall while waiting for it to arrive. Eating in…
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Short Story: Agatha Burns on Metro Fiction
Today my new story Agatha Burns features on the Metro Fiction site. It’s a short fiction from my work of interrelated flashes in progress Flashes of Sadness and Light. For those who’ve read Flash and The Solid Table Fallacy you might recognise the character who had a walk on role in this new story.