Category: Flash fiction
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#fridayflash Ode to Morrison
This is one of many many interrelated flashes. This is for lovely Morrison from The Solid Table Fallacy. If you’d like to see me reading it instead Click Here. Ignore the robot time check near the end. I suppose it won’t surprise you to know that I’m a little bit in love with Morrison Pentworthy.…
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#FridayFlash Further chronicles of Mars (in tribute to Ray Bradbury)
In tribute to Ray Bradbury In the long years of silence he waited, not knowing he waited. Ears that had been turned to him closed, the dust lifted and fell. He looked through the clearing for signs. He saw nothing, heard nothing without knowing he wanted to see, or hear. But his hands sought the…
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#fridayflash Hard shoulder
I fancied trying to keep within a 500 word limit. It’s late in the day and this is a bit of a riff but anyhow… On the hard shoulder she gave me the cold shoulder as we sat anxious and rattled. I’d had bangers and mash in the motorway diner, she’d had a platter of…
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#FridayFlash A Sense of Danger
Along the long pavement on the straight road she imagined being run down by a wayward driver mounting the kerb, her body crushed, the car ricocheting over her bones. Her feet became manic on the path, slapping the cruel concrete over and over. At the high voltage sub station the grid of the mesh gate…
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Hurray for National Flash Fiction Day & Free Housewife!
Well I’ve spoken before about National Flash Fiction Day and now it’s here! Congratulations to director Calum Kerr for the initiative and to all those involved in the mass of events in the UK and those in Dublin. It’s a lively celebration of a wonderful form! Here’s an interview I did with Calum. To celebrate…
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Flash Fiction: Jawbreakers, Calum Kerr and National Flash Fiction Day
National Flash Fiction day (May 16th) was the brainchild of writer and lecturer Calum Kerr. Calum set up the day to celebrate the short form of flash fiction and to co-ordinate events all around the U.K. and further afield. I interview Calum on my writing.ie blog all about the background to National Flash Fiction day…
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42 The Meaning of Life…Flash Fiction Writing Competition!
To celebrate the e-book launch of Housewife with a Half-Life on May 8th (paperback to follow) and my love of flash fiction I’m running a flash fiction writing competition. Since my space comedy book is a sort of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in Suburbia and because by amazing coincidence(!) my current age is the…
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