Category: #FridayFlash
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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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#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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#fridayflash Do not forget the girl forgotten
I’m very happy to have been invited by Johanna Harness to post my #fridayflash today on the #amwriting website. This beautifully designed website has plenty of terrific articles by writers who use the #amwriting twitter hashtag to connect. If for any reason, you can’t access or comment on the story there, here it is: It…
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Flash fiction in the Irish Times
Regular readers of the blog will know that I am a great fan of flash fiction and that I regularly take part in #fridayflash on Twitter where writers post their short fiction and read and review each others pieces. I’ve also talked about what flash fiction is on writing.ie Today in the Irish Times, crime…
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#fridayflash Cleave
In this flash another outing for Emily and Eddie, some of the characters in my still-in-progress interrelated flash collection. Setting sun, last dash grasped memory of fun, rollercoasters on the prom. Scuff, scuffle, sleet, duffle, caress, ruffle. Kerfuffle. Summers last forever, last summer. This time she was late, she had been out with her mother…
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#Fridayflash Three Objects
On every birthday she took out the box, high in the cupboard, behind her suitcase, behind the clothes of other season. In the box there was a photograph, the sliver of hair, the first suit that only fit him for a week. She took out the photograph and placed it face down on the bed.…
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#Fridayflash Unidentifed Fishy Objects
#fridayflash is a great community of writers on Twitter who post stories of less than a thousand words each week,then read and review each others work. It has been a great source of inspiration and discipline in my writing development and I recommend it highly. For more check out the button on the sidebar. Fridayflash…
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#Fridayflash Solid Table Fallacy & New Post on Writing.ie
I am absolutely delighted today to have been asked to post my #fridayflash on the #amwriting website. #Amwriting is ‘an award-winning Twitter hashtag created by Johanna Harness.’ Joanna is a mother and writer of middle grade and young adult novels who has created a venue on twitter (the hashtag #amwriting allows you to see a…
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#fridayflash Not Ariel
This was not her house, this was not her bed, these were not her curtains with the long nosed trolls hidden in the floral pattern. This was not the way the light trotted in around the curtain rail and swung around the room like a torchlight, disappeared with the low hum of departing car. This…
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#fridayflash Anywhere but Ireland
On this singular morning, the birdsong drills and pins the world by the scruff of it’s neck. It is easy to flee with the dawn, all impetus. The brine of the sea smells good. The ferry cuts through the water. The land retreats. I feel no nostalgia for round hills diminishing. There are children’s entertainers…
Alison Wells Author 