#FridayFlash Fiction | The New Reality
Chuck Wendig’s challenge this week was to face our fears: take a something we were scared of and use it as a basis for our story. I’ve returned to one of my earlier characters for this one, Johnson, a...
View Article#Fi50 | Moving with the Times
The last week of the month see my contribution to Bruce Gargoyle’s Fiction in 50 words microfiction meme. There’s no great sign-up or anything, you just join in whenever you feel like it. You can see...
View Article#Flashback Friday | The Horse-drawn Lighthouse
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where Michael d’Agostino helps us relive some of our neglected posts of the past. I tend to repost flash fictions of the past that I’ve enjoyed, and live in the mistaken...
View Article#FridayFlash Excerpt | How not to start a rebellion
The prompt from Chuck Wendig for this week is ‘Rebellion’, which is about where I am in planning the Princelings books, at present, although I’m currently re-editing The Perihelix. This is an excuse...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Parallel Lines Merge
Chuck asked us to give a three word title this week, from which he is going to select ten to give us our prompt for next week. I’m sure he will say you have to choose something other than one
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | All Flags Fall
As mentioned last week, Chuck Wendig invited us to provide three word titles from which he’d select ten for us to pick from for our 1000 words this week. The (awesome) winning selections were (with...
View Article#Fi50 | A Marriage of Convenience
Time flies, and it’s Fiction in 50 words again already. Check out other offerings at the Bookshelf Gargoyle. This time, the prompt is ‘marriage of convenience’. I give you: The second date She had...
View Article#Flashback Friday | The Amethyst God
I was wandering through my theme for the A2Z Challenge, when I remembered the tales of the avaricious explorers I used to do. I enjoy these. I must do some more. I just wonder why a guy called...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Road to Erebor
The Road to Erebor from David Colombo Photography is a random Flickr photo that I picked in response to this week’s Chuck Wendig prompt. I’m grateful to the photographer for such a moody, intense...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Ranger’s Tale
The Ranger’s Tale emerges from last week’s flash fiction coupled with the original story Too Much of a Good Thing. Chuck Wendig gave us a prompt to choose one of two well-known sayings (well, one was...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Monster at the Gates of Hell
“A monster that has never been seen or imagined by anyone before.” I doubt whether such a one exists, in truth, but that was the gist of Chuck Wendig’s challenge this week. And last week I left our...
View Article#Fi50 | Lucky Charms – the Silver Whistle
Lucky charms is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty (words), organised by the Bookshelf Gargoyle. It’s a great prompt – there are so many interpretations you can put on those two words. I...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Apple of the Hesperides
‘Hesperides’ sprang to mind when Chuck Wendig challenged us to a prompt involving gods and goddesses. Why I should think immediately of the Garden of the Hesperides is beyond me. I even had to look...
View Article#Flashback Friday | 100 Words
100 words isn’t much for a flash fiction story. I’ve tried it a few times, and as you know, I attempt Fiction in 50 each month. Today I’m doing #Flashback Friday with a very short story I did a long...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Fieldcraft #AtoZChallenge
Friday is Flash Fiction day on my blog. I usually get prompts from a great guy called Chuck Wendig, who has his own style, with a lot of rude words, but he’s inspirational despite that. For today he...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Long Way Home #AtoZChallenge
Long Way Home dates from February, when Chuck Wendig got us to devise some three word titles, then picked the best and asked us to write flash fiction to them. My choice that time was All Flags Fall,...
View ArticlePersistence #Fi50 #AtoZChallenge
Persistence. I had to fit letter P for the A to Z Challenge into this month’s Fiction in 50 Words from the Bookshelf Gargoyle. His theme? When One Door Shuts I thought persistence was a pretty good...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Red Sky at Night #AtoZChallenge
Red Sky at Night was the saying I took for this week’s flash fiction prompt. It needed to begin with R for the A to Z Challenge. I stole the idea for the quest from Ben Zackheim’s The Camelot Kids...
View Article#Flashback Friday | X Marks the Spot #AtoZChallenge
I was looking forward to finding a title beginning with X for my flash fiction today, although I was also tempted to borrow Rebecca Douglass’s spaceman Xavier Xanthum. Then I realised it was the last...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Compost Conundrum
Compost – one of my favourite subjects, since I have done time as a volunteer in Norfolk’s award-winning Master Composter programme. The incident of the pills described here happened to one of my...
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