Friday Flash Fiction | Surviving the Sleeve
Chuck‘s back, although seemingly exhausted! Our challenge this week is a piece of space opera… nominally in honour of a new Star Wars film. 1000 words. Well, I could have an ‘incident’ with the...
View ArticleFlash #Fi50 Friday – Life of the Party
Our Fiction in 50 words this month arrives on Thursday, simply because I have other posts in the way, and with all the reading I’m doing, I think a quickie is in order today. Life of the Party The...
View ArticleExclusive Extract from Princelings Book 7!
The Flash Fiction challenge this week was to come up with a title – which we’ll obviously be writing something for next week. So, in honour of my blog tour, and to give you an absolute exclusive, here...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction – The Shipping List
Last week we gave Chuck Wendig a title (mine was Weather Permitting). This week we write up to 2000 words (in my case 1900) on a title of our choice from the hundreds submitted. I listed six...
View ArticleFriday Flash Non-fiction – Train Insanity
Aagh. Chuck challenged us to do a non-fiction piece about ourselves. I thought of a few more entertaining incidents in my life, but frankly, I didn’t want to share them. I’m trying to forget they...
View Article#Fi50 – Beware the Ides of October
The prompt for this month’s Fiction in 50 words for October 25 is …Beware the … (You fill in the blank!) For Romans the Ides of October is the 15th of the month, and nominally the day of the full moon....
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Walking Backwards into Hell
No word from Chuck Wendig this week, so I’ve picked another title from those left a couple of weeks ago. This was Rebecca’s title, and it’s a 1750 word story, just for the hell of it. My view of hell...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Sir Woebegone Goes Fishing
Chuck’s missed this one out. It’s about time I brought Sir Woebegone out again, though, to make my blog more MG friendly. Not that this is any less weird than anything else I’ve done lately… but it...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction and Trick or Treat Giveaway preview
If you hadn’t noticed, it’s Halloween tomorrow. But if you’re in Australia it might be Halloween already, so I’m giving you a quick link at the bottom to my Halloween Trick or Treat Earlybirds posts....
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Thinking is bad for you
No prompt from Chuck. I feel like setting up a challenge myself, but I don’t want to tread on his toes, and I don’t have the following! Driving home the other day I thought of doing those ‘five...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Unlucky for Some (part 3)
If you weren’t paying attention earlier in the year, you might like to go back and read Unlucky for Some, parts 1 and 2 (I did link the first to the second to help you!). This 1000 word flash completes...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Should Have Known Better
A Random Song Title Challenge from Chuck Wendig. 1000 words. I always have trouble with these… until I found randomlists.com. This is a song by Sufjan Stevens, apparently. It’s a long time since I...
View Article#Fi50 – An Unexpected Arrival – and reading challenge round-up
This is my #Fi50 – Fiction in Fifty Words – for November, with the prompt as the title. It’s a Viridian System snippet of Dolores’ backstory, which will make little sense if you haven’t read any of Big...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Titan is all the rage
This goes back to a Chuck Challenge when we gave titles for others to use. This one’s from someone called Thanosrules. Thanks! If you want to read more about Titan, I found the Wikipedia entry very...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | The Sinking Ship
Chuck was doing something with Black Friday tweets. I’m doing something with this rat that ran across my path in Venice. Just a little something – about 500 words. The Sinking Ship Rats don’t desert...
View ArticleFlash Fiction Friday | Daniel’s Starfish
I’ve gone back to one of Chuck’s Challenges from the start of the year – a random title made up of words from two lists – the same lists that gave me The Thirteenth Snowflake and Heaven’s Inkwell (on...
View ArticleFriday Deja Vu Flash Fiction
This is the day of the year where I can repeat a post I did earlier that I think deserves another outing. It’s the brainchild of D L Hammonds and you can join in and post a repeat of your own until...
View ArticleYuletide Greetings
Apart from my Fi50 offering on Wednesday, this is my last post before Christmas, so you’ll find a set of stories on my book sites to keep you going: Christmas in the Delta Quadrant – Easy Come, Easy Go...
View Article#Fi50 – Venturing Forth
The last Fi50 of the year is due on December 27 with the theme Venturing Forth. This should really come out on Dec 26th, but you can have it now as it’s a seasonal story. I seem to have a fixation on...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Beware the Flesh-eating Zombies
This little game cropped up on my Facebook page thanks to an Australian friend, so I thought it would make a good flash fiction prompt. Here’s my first 1000 words story of the year. Happy New Year!...
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