#Fi50 Fiction in 50 words | Empty Nest
Empty Nest is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in 50 words #Fi50 flash fiction. This monthly challenge was the brainchild of Bruce Gargoyle, but is now continued by the Ninja Librarian herself,...
View Article#FlashbackFriday | Zombie Technothriller Mash-up
It’s a zombie technothriller Flashback Friday this month, since I couldn’t find anything more savoury involving night-time. Flashback Friday gives a second outing to posts you liked, but maybe didn’t...
View ArticleFlash Fiction | The Body (Noirwich entry 2018)
The Body is the 500 word flash fiction I submitted for the Noirwich writing competition. As mentioned previously, it made it to the last ten… but not into the top three. The only requirement for the...
View Article#WEP Flash Fiction | Deja Vu or Voodoo?
Deja Vu or Voodoo? is the prompt for this month’s WEP/IWSG flash fiction competition. It does seem to be a competition, not just an exercise in sharing our writing. Well, WEP does stand for...
View Article#Fi50 for October | Horror
Horror, not surprisingly, is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words. Fi50 was invented by Bruce Gargoyle, but is now administered by Rebecca Douglass at the Ninja Librarian. Just click over...
View Article#Flashback Friday | Tricks or Treats
Tricks and treats for Flashback Friday! When Rebecca Douglass reminded me, with her excellent flashback today, I realised that I have been rather irregular over the past few months. As usual, for...
View ArticleAphasia and a Friday Flash Excerpt
Aphasia is a condition a friend of mine, Julie, suffered after she suffered a brain haemorrhage or stroke ten years ago. Her experience of relearning to speak led me to include aphasia as a condition...
View Article#Fi50 | My family is so weird
‘My Family is So Weird’ is the prompt for today’s Fiction in Fifty Words Fi50. I found this more difficult that a single or double-word prompt, maybe because it was a complete sentence. Nevertheless...
View Article#FlashbackFriday | The Corsair Clearance
Corsair Clearance? I’m not sure you can really do a #FlashbackFriday post with something you can’t find in the past on your blog. But this is a special occasion: I’ve deleted this entire section from...
View Article#WEP Ribbons and Candles | Christmas #Flashfiction
Ribbons and Candles – this month’s theme for the WEP/IWSG flash fiction. Every other month we get a prompt from Denise at Write…Edit…Publish, and then at the beginning of the publishing month we link...
View Article#Fi50 | The Worst Gift – fiction in fifty words
The Worst Gift is this month’s prompt for the Fiction in Fifty Words meme #Fi50. Please thank Rebecca Douglass for hosting it all year and reminding us to link to her own post each month. More people...
View Article#Fi50 | Icy Fingers – fiction in fifty words
Icy Fingers is the prompt for today’s Fi50, or the Fiction in fifty words meme. I’m hoping more people will join in, since fifty words stories are fun to write. Rebecca is away, so I don’t suppose...
View Article#WEP/IWSG short story challenge | 28 Days
28 days, the title for February, went around my brain for a few circuits before I got two strands of inspiration. The suggestions from the WEP team when announcing the prompt covered so many angles it...
View Article#Fi50 | No More Hearts and Flowers
No More Hearts and Flowers was a prompt I came up with for Fi50 (actually I submitted it for the February WEP but 28 days won)! In the post-Valentines days of February, I hope you don’t identify too...
View ArticleJewel Box | #WEP-IWSG flash fiction #AtoZchallenge
Jewel Box is the prompt for this month’s WEP-IWSG flash fiction challenge. It’s not due until April 17th, but I’m doing it nearly a week early to go with J for Jewel in the A to Z Challenge. Apart...
View ArticleeXactly | Fiction in Fifty Words #Fi50 #AtoZchallenge2019
‘eXactly’ replaces the post I’d already done for this year’s X of the AtoZ Challenge. In fact, I’d replaced it last year, too. Maybe it will finally surface in 2020. Since that was also an eX cheat...
View Article#Fi50 | Sweet Home, Alabama (flash fiction)
Sweet Home Alabama is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words. You can join in by making your own fifty word story in response to the prompt. Link yours to (or just post it in) the...
View ArticleCaged Bird | Flash Fiction #WEP+IWSG
Caged Bird is the prompt for this months’ WEP+IWSG short story competiton. It’s a blog meme, but it’s also a competition, since there are winners, although nobody is a loser. The standard is generally...
View Article#Fi50 | Countdown – fiction in fifty words
Countdown is this month’s prompt in the Fiction in Fifty Words meme. Rebecca Douglass organises this, so join in any time you like. The year’s prompts are listed, together with the minimal...
View Article#Fi50 | August prompt – One Drop Too Many
August has been an odd month over here. July thunderstorms continued through August with rain in the west and dry in the east – until last week, when it hit the east as well. We’re talking UK...
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