This Word
A flash fiction entry for the Reflex Fiction Website. The Word Another sip of freshly-pressed coffee, as feet pace around the kitchen and into the study. There’s a chill underfoot when emigrating from warm under-floor ceramic heat to room temperature…
Just Another Conversation
A flash fiction writing post composed for December, from the prompt “The End and the Beginning”. Just Another Conversation The weather Gods are frantic with their hailstorm task. The bouncy-ball-sized ice smash downwards through the flashing clouds. It’s a surprise…
This Place I Know
A flash poetry writing post composed for December, inspired by the photo prompt; above, and written as an acrostic. This Place I know What a familiar view! This place I know. Do you?Early evening silhouetting, orangey-pink sun is setting,Lights sparkling,…
The Crystal Method
A Short Story – 1710 Words. The Crystal Method It’s raining; it always rains on pickup day. Especially on this estate, and especially onto these blocks of flats. No wonder they are all coloured grey, any colour has long washed…
Case Closed
A flash fiction writing post composed for November, from the prompt “The Encounter” and the photo above. Case Closed The tube train jolted as it rattled around a bend, business men and women who stood, swayed like seaweed on a…
Oh, God.
Following on from Dylan Thomas’s birthday on 14th May, below is a piece of Flash Poesy (in Thomas motif) starting with the first line of his Fern Hill poem “Now as I was young and…”. As seen here… http://scribblers.freeforums.net/thread/498/flash-poesy-31 Oh,…
Wings
A flash fiction writing post composed for December, from the prompt “Jump”. Spoiler: Contains profanity! Just so you know. Wings School. Teaching, it’s just not for me. Uniforms and rules: no room to manoeuvre, no creativity, no individualism. No understanding.…
So!
So, here is another attempt to motivate… Hold on, what’s with the “so” business? I mean it’s everywhere these days. Anyone who is anyone starts their sentence with a “so”. (And yes, I know, no conjunctions at the start or…
