Tag: 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 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 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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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.
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Metro Mums – Submission Opportunity
Metro Moms Network is an online magazine which provides content aimed at urban parents topics including those related to both parenting and work-life. Metro Moms Network supports all parents, but particularly those who are starting up small businesses or doing freelancing work. One element of the Metro Mums Network is the Metro Fiction slot. It’s…
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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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