#Fi50 – Signs and Wonders
These 50 word stories come around so quickly, surely it isn’t a whole month since the last one? And you realise there are only three more to come this year? Frightening. Don’t forget to visit the...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Car Park Murders
This was the piece I put forward for the Noirwich short story competition, the results of which were announced on Sunday. Apparently they had over 150 entries and mine wasn’t in the shortlisted four....
View Article#FlashbackFriday | The Next Generation
Yes, this week is the time for revisiting a post from the past. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to pick them, since many of these stories seem to me to be quite recent now! I’m going to post the...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Spooky Tales 1: Black Dog
Chuck Wendig‘s back on the case, and challenged us to come up with a real life (non-fiction) spooky tale today, so something that really happened to us. My really spooky tales, where something...
View Article#Fridayflash fiction | Spooky Tales 2: The Wardrobe
Chuck Wendig wants the first part of a spooky story that others will carry on. Time to break out and do my own spooky story, but still in two parts. This one involves a wardrobe. I woke up with the...
View Article#Fi50 | The Knight’s Dilemma
Time once again for the Bookshelf Gargoyle‘s fantastic Fiction in Fifty Words monthly challenge. As usual you can join in, you don’t even have to sign up, although adding your gem to the #Fi50 monthly...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Spooky Tales 3: The Wardrobe (continued)
This week we have part 2 of The Wardrobe, so if you missed the first part, start here. I hope you enjoy it, kinda. The Wardrobe, part 2 The next day I turned the key in the showroom door with some...
View Article#Flashback Friday | Halloween Special – Revenge of the Greenfly
It’s Flashback Friday again, and this one comes from 2014. I find it increasingly difficult to find posts for Friday flashback flash fiction – I suppose two years ago seems so ‘new’ to me! But before...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Party Animal
Today’s flash is all the fault of Momdude, who has a blog We Love the Stars Too Fondly. If you want to know where I got this idea, check his post here. I’m still not back in the flow of...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Second Mouse Costs Lives
Since it’s Armistice Day, I suppose I ought to do something a little more, well, serious, or atmospheric, than usual. I searched for a title from the idiomatic.com generator, which is a brilliant and...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Lure of Blackpool
I’m not sure whether ballroom dancing has the same international reputation as it does in the UK, but this story was brought on by watching Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing with the Stars in the US, I...
View Article#Fi50 – An Offer You Can’t Refuse
November’s Fiction in Fifty Words (Fi50) feature takes the theme of ‘an offer you can’t refuse’. I was passing the time on the US Election night, catching up with the blog, avoiding even more bad news...
View Article#Flashback Friday | The Empress and the Peanut
Yes, it’s time for Michael d’Agostino’s Flashback Friday again. Last Friday of the month sees a number of us finding posts we think deserve another outing. This month I’m going one step further back...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Ten-Speed Bike
Inspired by a quote from Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame: “Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” It’s 2000 words and I hope you enjoy it. The Ten-speed Bike Adam rubbed...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The SuperClaus Catastrophe
Searching for inspiration for today, I found August’s Subgenre Mashup list and picked Superhero Heist as a possibility for a Christmas themed story. Raccoons feature again – they seem to get...
View Article#DejaVu BlogFest | Buckmore at Yule by Willoughby the Narrator
Welcome to this year’s Deja Vu Blogfest, the brainchild of DL Hammons. In view of the approaching launch of book 7 in the Princelings of the East series: Willoughby the Narrator, I have asked the...
View Article#Flashback Friday | No Room at the Inn of the Seventh Happiness
I’m doing Flashback Friday a week early, because it’s Christmas, and I wanted to repeat this one, especially as I’ve worked out it appears ‘this yuletide’ in the Princelings series timeline. I had to...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Five Years On
I wasn’t planning to do one today, having done Flashback Friday last week, but I had a dream about New Year’s Eve 2021. Surprisingly, it was a good dream. It’s 1000 words, and I hope it doesn’t dampen...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The BookFeet
For various reasons, mainly for my own convenience, I’ve put a number of resources for Flash Fiction Prompts on a set of pages you can access from the Menu on the left. This week I’ve used a random...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Magpie Robin Encounter
Chuck Wendig is back, and asking for an Apocalypse story. Well I reckon my last one in 2016 counts for that. Here’s a 1000-word something based on an incident that amused me. I walked towards a...
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