Category: Flash fiction
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#fridayflash Anise Fish and Colin behind the Glass
#FridayFlash (check it out, anyone can do it) as I’ve said many times before has been the single most important influence and inspiration for me in my writing development over the last few years, since I began calling myself a writer, writing everyday and striving to say things that were important to me but to…
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Lost Property by flash fiction maestro Calum Kerr
Calum Kerr is a writer, editor, lecturer and director of National Flash-Fiction Day in the UK. He lives in Southampton with his wife – the writer, Kath Kerr – their son and a menagerie of animals. His new collection of flash-fictions, Lost Property, is now available from Cinder House: http://cinderhouse.com/product/lost-property-by-calum-kerr/ I’ve known Calum (electronically!) for…
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How to write when kids just fight and other stuff
School’s out in this house and my eldest son whose twelve and a half has ‘graduated’ from Irish primary school so a nice sense of achievement and moving on. In terms of keeping my ‘Head above Water’ writing wise I’m doing my best to get up in the early hours before the kids wake to…
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All things Flash
As you may know Saturday 22nd June is when this year’s Summer Solstice falls, thus making it the Longest Day and the shortest night of the year. Of course in Australia it’s the shortest day so in the spirit of all things International and short, fictionwise it will also be International Flash Fiction Day. There…
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Flash Mob: Holographic Dog
(Fiction) It’s far from holographic dogs I was reared. We had Shep, Fido and Bounder – good sheepdogs they were. We had a mongrel named Patch, apt that. He was gone in the head, didn’t know you he’d go right through you. Thing was, there was a ‘spate’ of burglaries round our way. More used…
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Dot to Dot Man
Upcoming family occasions, recent family events and getting submissions ready mean that I haven’t been able to blog as much as I’d like. I so enjoyed making new acquaintances during my creativity month in January and I have more posts on the subject to come so hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly. Having said…
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#fridayflash Silence
Silence Silence, how he liked it. Twigs snapping like bones. A cry, single and sharp. Silence. Hands over his ears under the bushes in his boyhood garden. Hand over her mouth. Silence. This is in response to my 31 word writing prompt that forms the basis of a 31 or 131 word flash fiction competition…
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#fridayflash MESSAGE
HELLO THIS IS EARTH WE ARE HUMAN HUMAN COME BACK I SAW YOUR LIGHTS YOU ARE NOT ALONE DON’T BE SCARED I LOVE YOU COME BACK THIS IS EARTH HUMAN WE ARE HUMAN
Alison Wells Author 