#FridayFlash Fiction | Who Left the Door Open?
So there was this picture on the Story Reading Ape’s blog that he’d reblogged from somewhere else. Brilliant prompt, I thought. If you look carefully at the bottom, you’ll see it’s one of our...
View Article#FlashbackFriday | The Termagant’s Brains
Termagant. I didn’t even know what it meant (I’m not sure I do now) but it was a random ‘roll two dice’ to get a combination title from Chuck‘s lists two years ago. I didn’t remember it, either, and...
View ArticleOld Wives’ Tales #Fi50 May prompt
Old Wives’ Tales is the prompt for the month’s Fiction in Fifty words #Fi50, the brainchild of the BookShelf Gargoyle. I enjoy doing these miniature stories, the purpose of which is to create a full...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Woebegonnie & Clyde
It’s Fridayflash time! I’m a week late with this one, as I explained last Friday, but I think this one’s worth it. Chuck Wendig is back with a subgenre mash-up – and you know how I like those. I got...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Deadbeat Cannibals on tour
Deadbeat Cannibals on Tour is this week’s 1100 word flash fiction. I continue to be a week behind Chuck Wendig’s prompts. This week he suggested an except from Twitter, but I picked two numbers and...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | It came from Nether Smocking
Nether Smocking: a tiny village in the middle of the countryside – British, but anywhere will do. Chuck’s given us a lovely prompt this week, to celebrate his new book Invasive, we have 1500 words to...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Thief of the Moon
This week Chuck gave us a list of random titles. One leapt out at me, The Thief of Moons, although after I’d written the story I amended the title to The Thief of the Moon. I wanted to feature a The...
View Article#Fi50 | A Change in the Weather
A Change in the Weather is this month’s prompt from Bruce Gargoyle in his Fiction in Fifty (Fi50) meme. You can join in this fun communal story-telling any time you like. Bruce posts his own offering...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | The Vintage Explorer
The Vintage Explorer is a title I gave Rebecca ages ago during the first Chuck Hiatus. Today I wanted to do something involving flying machines since I hadn’t told you I have a Goodreads Giveaway on...
View Article#Flashback Friday | GhostGum Creek
GhostGum Creek: I’m going back to June 2014 for this one, which surprised me as I’ve never rerun it before (I checked). It is a venue that I integrated into the end of the Perihelix (and has stood the...
View ArticlePostcard from Camp | The Perihelix extract 2
An extract from The Perihelix (or whatever I’m working on at Camp NaNoWriMo) is my best offering for Flash Fiction this month. This 550 word section follows on from the snippet I gave you on Wednesday....
View ArticlePostcard from Camp | The Perihelix Extract 3
Camp NaNoWriMo week 2 was going well… until I read the latest Adirondack Publishing advice on The Story Reading Ape – about Voice. As you know, I’m re-editing The Perihelix, especially the first...
View ArticlePostcard from Camp | Fanwester loses it
‘Fanwester loses it’ is an extract that I really enjoyed writing. The original version (first draft, not the one that got published) was a lengthy rant by the character about people and things that my...
View Article#Fi50 | After Dinner – a fifty word story
After Dinner is Monday morning’s offering for the Fiction in 50 (words) for this week. I usually do these a little earlier, to make sure I put them on the BookShelf Gargoyle’s page as soon as he puts...
View Article#Flashback Friday | Spaghettification
Spaghettification started out as an independent short story in February 2015, and then became the key to the second book in the Viridian System series. That’s Curved Space to Corsair—I’ve just started...
View Article#Fridayflash fiction | Once there was far music
‘Far music’ reminds me of lying in bed listening to a steam fair echoing across the fields when I was maybe twelve or thirteen; the following year my brother took me and I went on some of the rides –...
View Article#FridayFlash Fiction | Sir Woebegone and the Unicorn
A unicorn from the future appears at the marriage of a Scottish queen. It says: “I am here to talk to you.” This quote is from the Magic Realism Bot – something someone found and sent to Chuck Wendig,...
View ArticleFridayFlash Fiction | Ghosts of the Sea Queen
Ghosts of the Sea Queen: With no particular prompt this week I went back to the list of titles Chuck Wendig gave us a few weeks back, and picked out this one, with various Marie Celeste images floating...
View Article#Fi50 | Blessing in Disguise – 50 word short story
Blessing in Disguise is the prompt for #Fi50, Fiction in fifty words, this month. Once I got the idea of a missed bus, the rest of it wrote itself. I’m back to doing my story the week before Bruce...
View Article#FlashbackFriday | Daniel’s Starfish
Daniel’s Starfish is my choice for Flashback Friday this month. I wanted something summery, and that to me is beach related. This 500 word story was originally written to a title picked from two lists...
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