Flashback Friday | Guilt in Greyscale
I said I wasn’t doing Flashback Friday any more. Then events of this week made me think of all the things I needed to do, and I remembered this story: Guilt in Greyscale, from 2015. It was an ‘include...
View Article#Fi50 | September – Taking Turns
Taking Turns is September’s prompt for Fiction in Fifty Words. I enjoy this micro fiction challenge, and you can join in. It’s much easier than haiku! Although I might start doing those again. For...
View ArticleWolf at the Door | #Fi50 plus Technical WordPress fix
‘Wolf at the door’ is this month’s prompts in the Fiction in 50 (words) flash fiction challenge. I love doing these shorts, but we seem doomed to continue them on our own. You can join in – check out...
View Article#Fi50 | Forging Ahead
Forging Ahead is this month’s prompt for the Fiction in Fifty words meme that Rebecca and I continue to plug on with, in hope that some other people will join us. It’s really good to have to craft a...
View ArticleWEP+IWSG Flash Fiction | Footprints
Footprints, and December, came together to give me some inspiration at last. So I’m back in the saddle for the December WEP+IWSG flash fiction adventure. I think the team at WEP have done a great job...
View Article#Fi50 | Behind the Curtain
Behind the Curtain is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words #Fi50. I’m posting earlier than usual because there’s a rumour of some sort of celebration going on in most parts of the world...
View ArticleTuesday #Writephoto | Keep
Keep is the first of Sue Vincent’s #writephoto challenges that I’ve accepted. I said near the end of last year I was going to find another blog hop to keep my short fiction going. I’m going to aim to...
View ArticleHelp! I’ve been Abducted by Aliens Day | Blog Hop
Help! I’ve been Abducted by Aliens Day is a shameless piece of promotion by Patricia Josephine to celebrate the anniversary of her book Abducted Life. Well, why not? I enjoyed it! To celebrate,...
View ArticleWEP+IWSG Flash Fiction | Cafe Terrace
Cafe Terrace – what a gorgeous badge. As soon as I saw it I had the setting for my story – it took a while longer to develop the plot! This is my entry for this month’s WEP+IWSG flash fiction. The post...
View ArticleTuesday #writephoto | Still waters
Still is this week’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. I’m really pleased I remembered my aim to do these once a month. I’m also aiming to do my story in 200 words. Here’s the photo: Very pretty! I...
View Article#writephoto for March | Lambent – a clifi story
Lambent is the title Sue Vincent gave her #writephoto prompt this week. It refers to the quality of light in the stunning photo she’s chosen. This is my week for moving house, provided the floor people...
View ArticleWEP+IWSG | The Antique Vase – Flash Fiction
Antique Vase is the prompt for this month’s WEP+IWSG writing challenge. I loved the badge. It gave so many ideas, but particularly the quality of the washed out sky and temple, that really took me to...
View Article#Flashback Friday | It came from Nether Smocking
It Came from Nether Smocking – some Flashback fiction as I was delving into the past short stories on my blog, cataloguing them. This was no idle self-confidence boost. I plan to make a collection of...
View Article#writephoto | Causeway – a short excerpt
Causeway is this week’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. I’ve been a little remiss in fitting in my writephotos. Sorry about that. In fact, I’m cheating anyway, as I’m giving you an excerpt from...
View Article#writephoto for end of May – Guardian
Guardian is this week’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent. I meandered around a couple of ideas in my head, then studied the photo a little longer. It rang a few bells – good ones! Last year my story...
View Article#WEP+IWSG Flash Fiction | Urban Nightmare #30DaysWild
Urban Nightmare. It wasn’t a prompt that inspired me, until I combined it with #30DaysWild! Thank you to the team at Write Edit Publish, for continuing to promote this bimonthly feast of flash fiction....
View Article#writephoto for mid-July | Vista and the Talent Seekers
Vista is Sue Vincent’s prompt for our #Writephoto inspiration this week. Here’s the photo she gave us: I confess I’m fairly sure I know where this vista is. There are several posts on Sue’s blog where...
View Article#writephoto for early August | Fantasy
Early August! Already a week gone, and I’m feeling so much more settled now. I’m even back into a routine of writing and work. Too much work, though, with all the moving paperwork I’ve been putting...
View Article#WEP+IWSG Flash Fiction | Long Shadow
Long Shadow makes me think of a shadow I always used to imagine was going to look around the corner of the landing and look at me in my bed. But the picture isn’t right for a story about him… The post...
View Article#writephoto Late August | Crescent
A crescent moon provides the prompt for this week’s #writephoto offering. This is a rising moon in the photo below, although this week we have a setting crescent moon sinking below the shadow of the...
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