Competition Thirty-Five Highly Commended: Whalebone Garden - Free Flash Fiction

There are pictures of the dead whale in the local paper.   I sit in the dunes staring at it’s grey bulk, arms wrapped around my knees, marram grass scratching the backs of my legs and I think of your ...

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Competition Thirty-Five Highly Commended: Dreams of Camelot - Free Flash Fiction

All that summer, they lived the American dream, cruising hot Buffalo nights, high on life, guzzling happy hour one-dollar drinks. When fall’s exuberance left her breathless, he took her to the Albrigh...

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Competition Thirty-Five Highly Commended: Dreams of Camelot - Free Flash Fiction

All that summer, they lived the American dream, cruising hot Buffalo nights, high on life, guzzling happy hour one-dollar drinks. When fall’s exuberance left her breathless, he took her to the Albrigh...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Sentinel - Free Flash Fiction

Every morning Darragh walked the cliffside path alone. Not ritual. Penance. Always within his eyeline stood an unmoving figure. Stolid. Silent. Lingering on the horizon with its gaze fixed upon him. A...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Sentinel - Free Flash Fiction

Every morning Darragh walked the cliffside path alone. Not ritual. Penance. Always within his eyeline stood an unmoving figure. Stolid. Silent. Lingering on the horizon with its gaze fixed upon him. A...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Michelangelo of Morecambe - Free Flash Fiction

Tomorrow the bulldozers will bash down our sixties semi, won’t care about its double-height rococo chapel. It’d been our single garage until Dad went to a Billy Graham Crusade, came home saved, and ex...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Michelangelo of Morecambe - Free Flash Fiction

Tomorrow the bulldozers will bash down our sixties semi, won’t care about its double-height rococo chapel. It’d been our single garage until Dad went to a Billy Graham Crusade, came home saved, and ex...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Coloured Glass - Free Flash Fiction

Vila stood beside her father as the bells began, echoing across the rooftops. The coffin moved first, carried by men she had known all her life. Her hands were clasped so tightly her nails dug crescen...

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Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Coloured Glass - Free Flash Fiction

Vila stood beside her father as the bells began, echoing across the rooftops. The coffin moved first, carried by men she had known all her life. Her hands were clasped so tightly her nails dug crescen...

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So The Story Goes - Free Flash Fiction

So the story goes if I tell my friends I am writing a novel they will say “Wow!” and look at me in awe.  I tell them and they do.   Now my characters have stopped telling me what to write and I am bor...

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The Drowning Season - Free Flash Fiction

The morning sunshine had filled Martin with a sense of unease. As midday approached, he sat at the kitchen table and took a last drag from his cigarette. His wife’s absence had deprived him of the sec...

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The Drowning Season - Free Flash Fiction

The morning sunshine had filled Martin with a sense of unease. As midday approached, he sat at the kitchen table and took a last drag from his cigarette. His wife’s absence had deprived him of the sec...

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I see my future carved in a stone rhinoceros - Free Flash Fiction

The tour guide promises she will stick to the shade.  I pull my Lisboa cap snugly over my eyes. George is embarrassed by this cap. But I think it gives me a Kardashian air. I have the butt to match.  ...

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I see my future carved in a stone rhinoceros - Free Flash Fiction

The tour guide promises she will stick to the shade.  I pull my Lisboa cap snugly over my eyes. George is embarrassed by this cap. But I think it gives me a Kardashian air. I have the butt to match.  ...

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The Time-Travellers Cooking Chaos - Free Flash Fiction

I’ve always loved to cook. I enjoy the creativity and the experimentation of it all. The beauty of mixing cultures and countries and colours all in one bowl. So when my sister asked me to do a collect...

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Last Day at the Beach - Free Flash Fiction

They were packing up when the children threw their crusts into the sand, waiting for gulls that never came. The sea was too still. The sky too clear. The sound of the waves seemed distant, as if it be...

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Last Day at the Beach - Free Flash Fiction

They were packing up when the children threw their crusts into the sand, waiting for gulls that never came. The sea was too still. The sky too clear. The sound of the waves seemed distant, as if it be...

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CodeCode My World - Free Flash Fiction

I can’t snap snap snap my fingers, drum drum my hands on my leg, tap tap my toes toes click click my teeth with a yellow Ticonderoga   I can’t cluck cluck cluck my tongue off the roof of my mouth, or ...

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He Woke Before His Da - Free Flash Fiction

He walks barefoot tipping clods of mud over with his toes. Hunching down, breathing heavily through his sleeve, he forces a hand into the earth, feeling the cold. What they had planted had been mostly...

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