Tag: #FridayFlash
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#fridayflash CODES
#fridayflash is a community on Twitter, Facebook and here. The idea is that you post a short fiction up to 1000 words each or any week on your blog and you link to it using the #fridayflash hashtag on Twitter as well as adding the link to the collector. Everyone who posts tries to read…
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#fridayflash Anise Fish and Colin behind the Glass
#FridayFlash (check it out, anyone can do it) as I’ve said many times before has been the single most important influence and inspiration for me in my writing development over the last few years, since I began calling myself a writer, writing everyday and striving to say things that were important to me but to…
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#fridayflash Silence
Silence Silence, how he liked it. Twigs snapping like bones. A cry, single and sharp. Silence. Hands over his ears under the bushes in his boyhood garden. Hand over her mouth. Silence. This is in response to my 31 word writing prompt that forms the basis of a 31 or 131 word flash fiction competition…
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Real
That was the start of it, the vigils. Every night at the foot of the Gilt Spears a group of people congregated in a housing estate to look up at the stars. Housewives with working away husbands, fractious toddlers hanging upside down in their grim grip, wailing at the night. Comic book men with costume…
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#fridayflash Ode to Morrison
This is one of many many interrelated flashes. This is for lovely Morrison from The Solid Table Fallacy. If you’d like to see me reading it instead Click Here. Ignore the robot time check near the end. I suppose it won’t surprise you to know that I’m a little bit in love with Morrison Pentworthy.…
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#fridayflash Reunion
They met again in a supermarket. It was Christmas Eve and everyone was there. All around the shop assaults of memory, surreptitious sightings of people from the past, back, nasty girls from school now snapped and pummeled, lost boys made good in chinos and suits, friends of her mother patting her arm in the biscuit…
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#Fridayflash From the hospital
This is a segment from my literary novel The Book of Remembered Possibilities which I’m revising for submission. This is a stand alone episode where Freya comes out of the hospital after a coma. The way she placed her feet seemed to have many possibilities, the way this oriented her body in the surrounding space.…
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#FridayFlash Self-Possession
I have a 300 word flash up on the #amwriting site today. It’s called Self-Possession. It was written in response to one of the paintings on view at the Irish Writers Centre. (Full details on my guest post). If you can’t post a comment there I’d love to have your thoughts here. Update: I’ve added…