Category: Fiction
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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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Housewife with a Half-Life e-book launched!
The day is finally here! I’m delighted to launch my debut novel as A.B. Wells Housewife with a Half-Life! Available on: Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk A paperback will be available in June! Join me here and on my and on my facebook launch event page. If on twitter, retweet the links for Housewife with a Half-Life launch…
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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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Lucky Seven: Seven lines from Housewife with a Half-Life
I’ve been tagged by Jane Rusbridge and by Martha Williams as one of her authors in the Lucky Seven meme. It gives established and new writers a chance to showcase what they are working on. The instructions for Lucky 7 are: · Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript · Go to…
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