Category Flash Fiction
Unwanted Jetsam
I’m participating in Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers’ writing prompt. I’m certainly enjoying the challenge of putting together a 100 word story each week. “What is it? It’s huge.” “An anchor chain.” They’d been beachcombing, trekking across the cove for hours. “From a shipwreck?” Pascal poked a coal-black iron ring. “Aye, which means…” He pushed Pascal […]
Jurassic Park
Today’s picture for Friday’s Fictioneers. The challenge: write no more than 100 words of fiction. He blamed her new hobby on their trip to Lyme Regis. She’d discovered a fossilized tooth on the beach beneath the giant cliffs. Since then, she’d developed what he deemed an unhealthy obsession. Instead of sculpting her usual angels or […]
A Pruner’s Musing
I’m joining a multitude of Friday Fictioneers for a burst of creativity. Using a picture prompt posted every Wednesday by Rochelle Wisoff on her blog, I’ve to conjure up no more than 100 words by Friday. You know I don’t want to cut you, but you’ve been too successful. You’ve stretched out, filled the spaces, […]
The edifice
This is my first go at Friday Fictioneers – a 100 word flash fiction challenge based on a photo prompt. So here goes…. Where had it come from? Grey haired Farmer Joe couldn’t explain. He spoke on local radio, broadcasting his confusion at the arrival of the edifice in his hay field. Crowds gathered […]
A brief conversation about a cold
So I caught a cold. I do find myself thinking – we can send people into outer space, but we can’t cure the common cold. Imagine if the first cold hadn’t been caught until modern times, rather it appears magically and it’s symptoms unknown, and you’re the first, the one who has to contact your […]
The Quiet Writer 