Shelly moved towards the outcrop. She would have to climb, and that was always the tricky part. A faint clanking and whirring noise came from her with the occational clunk. The rock face loomed and she took a deep breath; of course she didn’t have to climb… Many would not, but to get a proper […]
It had started snowing heavily, being on his own these days Jed had crawled into bed after banking the fire and praying it would not go out attempted to make himself comfortable. There was only him for miles, a little farm house in the wilderness, all that was left of the acres his father had […]
That night as Alicia remembered it had been full of wonders, the weather had been all over the place during the day ending with a full moon on snow that had stuck to the tree trunks reaching into the clear sky. The frosty covering sparkeled under the lunar light and fingers of cloud whisped upwards. […]
It is a new year and I have over 100 Flash Fiction I’ve realised and after putting together the DoomsDay Collection I have a thirst for putting books together so I am thinking that I want to put out a flash only collection this year if I can. Now I have lots of other writing […]
As there is a prediction of changing of ages today in the Mayan tradition and people are panicking it is the end of the world I thought I would collect all my flash fictions, short stories and poems together. This however is not all of them but enough to be getting on with! It contains […]
Do to health issues I never got around to submitting anything for this second collection from the Friday Flash community but non the less this is a cracker of a book with some of my favourite flashers in it 🙂 I even attended the Facebook launch party 😉
So I am taking along copies of The Little Book of Festive Poetry (which I’ve made myself) to the Cranham Craft Fayre tomorrow! I will sign them if asked and profit goes to buy the school new books for their library. Its on from 10 – 4 and I will also have copies of Running […]
I awoke on the morning of the Literature Festival and felt the zing, this was it, this was the day I would become a proper writer. Not one with zillions of half finished projects but one with focus and drive! I had booked the workshop months ago – the toast I made was left cold […]
This is one of the collections of Flash Fiction I found out about via the National Flash Fiction Day stuff. My story did not make the cut but it’s got good stories in there and is well worth the read 🙂
Yesterday I went along to The Albion Beatnik in Oxford and listened to some fantastic stories being read out. I myself did The Kissy Bunny and Melvin The Coconut. I decided again a few other selections I had with me as there were children in the audience. Turned out there was an aspect of competition […]