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#FridayFlash Fiction | The White Rose of York

Friday is flash fiction day, and I’ve restricted myself to just over 800 words to bring you a piece of Viridian System series backstory, which readers of The Perihelix have been asking for.  Well, they...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Jeremy Pocket and the See-Through Wall

I was sorely tempted to take this week off, or to give you a snippet from Viridian System Book 2.  But Chuck Wendig had challenged people last week to give him an awesome title, from which he selected...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Rock, Sky and Water

Today’s challenge from Chuck Wendig was to get a random photo from a site and use it as the inspiration for a 1000 word story.  This beautiful picture was the first up, and I neglected to note the...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Return to Sender

Back to Chuck Wendig‘s very creative prompts today. I don’t know where he finds these random prompt generators on the internet (maybe I should google ‘random writing prompt generator’ and find out),...

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#Fi50 – Mixed Messages

It’s that time again, when I locate the Bookshelf Gargoyle’s prompt for the Fiction in 50 Challenge and set to work on the somewhat difficult task of a good (and complete) story in fifty words.  You...

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#FlashbackFriday | Rajah of Nilgiri

I’ve been doing Flash Fiction on Fridays for a long time now, and my first reaction on seeing Michael D’Agostini’s Flashback Friday was to think, no – I do flash fiction then.  But I need to write and...

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#Fridayflash excerpt | The Explosive Mixture

I apologise for the lack of an original story today.  What with rewriting, editing and beta-reading, I just haven’t got my flash fiction brain in gear.  Chuck Wendig gave us the challenge to start with...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Towards an Exodentrite Nirvana

Must have a map.  That’s the challenge from Chuck Wendig this week. I was tempted to re-use ‘X marks the Spot‘.  But then I had one of those dreams, as I do when I’m busy writing a book.  This is...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | The Inspector Calls

Today’s challenge from Chuck is to start with a stranger at the door and write 1000 words.  I fancied a little more Viridian System backstory – you may find referring to my world-building post on Ulric...

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#Fi50 – The Only Certainty

Our Fiction in 50 words prompt for June is The Only Certainty.  I seem to be stuck in asteroid mining mode at present.  If you’d like to join in on this very enjoyable meme, or see other people’s...

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#Flashback Friday | The Legend of the Scarecrow Epidemic

I find I rather enjoy these ‘legend’ stories although I do find them hard to start with.  This one is almost exactly three years old (it’s Flashback Friday, in case you hadn’t noticed – and do visited...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | One Hell of a Job

Chuck asked us to use one of five ‘seeds’ he gave us as prompts this week, and do 1500 words.  I deliberated on this.  I wondered whether my reluctance was due to all the political stresses recently,...

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#Fi50 | Aged to Perfection

If you haven’t found out about Bruce Gargoyle’s Fiction in 50 words yet, you’re missing out.  Whether you want to join in, or follow other people, just check his instruction post here. This month’s...

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#FlashbackFriday | Zephyrs and Other Winds

This story was originally written for the Z post of A to Z 2013.  As posts in the #flashbackfriday go, it’s probably received more reads than others, but as I come to the end of Camp Nano for another...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | The Fatal Decision

Chuck gave us a genre mash-up this week, and I got Cli-fi Musical, which sounded like my two favourite things.  It may be post-Nano Blues, or the Olympics, but Thursday night came and I still hadn’t...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | The Green Green Grass of Svalbard

I’m a little late with this sub-genre mash-up that Chuck Wendig gave us at the beginning of the month.  But it took time to leave my Princelings books behind and find some new inspiration.  The genres...

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#FlashbackFriday | Sir Woebegone and the Dragon

It seems to be a long time since I last wrote a Sir Woebegone story. In fact the last one was in February.  He’s another who started as a minor character, this time The Empress and the Peanut, and then...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Fair Exchange is Wasted on the Young

Back to work, and Chuck Wendig gave us a fascinating link to click this week to obtain a mashed up idiom.  See what I mean at The Idiomatic I got a couple of goodies, including “Every picture is the...

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Too Much of a Good Thing

Chuck’s given us a (somewhat rude) D&D character generator for this week’s challenge.  I loved the last one I did – all the way back in January 2015 (What’s your poison). This time it’s a.....

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#FridayFlash Fiction | Farewell, My Lovelies

With apologies to Raymond Chandler for mangling his title, today’s offering is an inspiration devised by Chuck Wendig to retell an iconic scene in a different genre. I’d read his brief, and thought...

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