Friday Flash Excerpt – Spending money
I’ve been bound up with editing The Perihelix this week, and can’t even think of other topics for writing. I spent two days reading the latest draft out loud (and recording it, although I don’t know...
View ArticleDreaming of Books Giveaway Hop
Today is Flash Fiction Friday, but it’s also the start of the Dreaming of Books Giveaway Hop, sponsored by Bookhounds. So enjoy the story (900 words) and then enter the giveaway, which ends on 26th...
View Article#Fi50 – Dredging up the past
Welcome to a new year of the Bookshelf Gargoyle’s Fiction in 50 Challenge. He’s got some cracking prompts set up for us already for the first half of this year, so if you feel like joining in, pop...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | The Crow of Nine-World
Chuck is back, working and active (he’s been working very hard). He gave us a choice of ten titles he randomly generated for us, and I suspect I’ll use some of the others as the year goes on. I...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | These Damned Insects
Chuck gave us another listed of random-generated titles this week, and this caught my eye, but then I steered myself away from something to do with Big Pete and the Swede, and set it back into my...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Sir Woebegone tweets
I was hoping to use one of the other titles Chuck Wendig gave us the other week, but he’s come out with ‘fiction in the social media world’. I’m wondering about a story in tweets, but I can barely get...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Zombie Technothriller mash-up
One of my favourite flash fiction prompts from Chuck Wendig this week – a subgenre mashup, with a list to select two at random and mash them together (in 1500 words). I’m not sure that this is really...
View ArticleFriday Flash Fiction | Balancing the Buks
A Star Wars meets Minecraft challenge. Hm. How about we go back to my last Star Wars meets… It was June 2013, nobody liked it or commented on it, and I had forgotten the detail, yet it remains one...
View Article#Fi50 – Raising the Bar
Thanks once again to the BookShelf Gargoyle for the prompt for this month’s Flash fiction in 50 words prompt. As usual, I’ve taken it as my title. Raising the Bar Bubbles rose as divers attached...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Octopus’s Garden
It’s a very poor reflection on my temperament, but I get irritated when we are asked to post a first line one week, to then pick from the others for a post the following week. It’s a cop-out. Surely...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Dylan, my hero
Those of you who follow me on Facebook (or possibly Twitter) will know that I lost my guinea pig Dylan last Friday. It was relatively unexpected (well, before Wednesday, anyway) and it’s left me not...
View Article#Fridayflash Fiction | All you can eat
Chuck gave us a simple challenge this week – pick one of the seven deadly sins, and go for it. So here are 1000 words on Kaa Birith’s hospitality at work. The Kaa is a senator of the Imperium, and...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Not a bad egg
Please could I ask you to go over to Author Shout where The Perihelix is up against a load of other great covers in COVER WARS all week. Please vote EVERY DAY all this week. Thank you (and please...
View Article#Fi50 – The Esteemed Guest
Yes, it’s Fiction in 50 words again already; doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?! Pop over to the Bookshelf Gargoyle to get the prompts to join in – it’s great fun, and only requires fifty words...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Tooth Fairy
Well, having misinterpreted last week’s instructions, I accepted Rebecca’s challenge to make amends with a five sentence story today. Then one of the members of GMGR said he got his inspiration from a...
View ArticleA is for the #AtoZChallenge #FridayFlash World-building Mash-up
Greetings, A2Zers everywhere, as well as to my flash fiction followers. It’s April 1st, and no fooling, it’s the A to Z Challenge again. Since I’m also doing Camp NaNoWriMo, to help me get through my...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | G’Nauss is the Winter of our Discontent
My Friday flash fiction feature needs to fit with G for a world of my own – in this case G’Nauss. G’Nauss is a Federation planet known for its champagne – well, that was the main reason for inventing...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Tower of Mbeya
Yes, we’re world-building again on flash fiction day, so I’m pulling out some old-style explorers and setting them off to explore some of the ruins of Mbeya – which features in The Perihelix, the first...
View ArticleR is for Rufus and #Fi50 for April
R is for Rufus, a star system on the Beta side of the Alpha Quadrant. I’m world-building in my own system today. There are two inhabited planets: Rufus 5 is called Pavane, and Rufus 6 is so far...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Sunset Strip – Elder Council
S is for Sunset Strip, the binary planet of the Viridian System whose major industry is leisure and tourism. Whenever I write flash fiction for any worlds in the Viridian System at present I’m always...
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