Flash Fiction: "Mother and Gravel" by Marc Isaac Potter
Mother and Gravel My mother tried to tell me something, but she forgot exactly how her mother spoke it to her, she only remembered that...
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- Jun 20
Flash Fiction: "Rainbursts" by Dale Stromberg
The thunder and the rain have become commonplace. Nina has been working from home for the whole of the pandemic, in the cramped room off...
- Jun 15
Flash Fiction: "The South Pole's Very Far From Here" by Martha Lane
And Joe’s pockets are stuffed with fizzy rockets to get us there. Our footprints turn the snow to Swiss cheese. ‘How long will it take?’...
- Jun 15
Flash Fiction: "Time Capsule" by Elisabeth Kelly
There. The curved top poking up. Soil gently falling down the sides. The raised golden pattern peeling slightly, as fraying grey edges...
- Jun 10
Flash Fiction: "Me, S/he and the Pea" by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
My skin’s not delicate, nor my thoughts subtle. I’ve lived hand to mouth, rambled many roads and bathed in ice-cold mountain streams. My...
- May 30
Flash Fiction: "The Romance Generation: Two Tales" by Victoria Hood
Tale I: Woman Seeking Woman I can tell by the way in which the men agreed with each other that they had conspired beforehand. Of course,...
- May 18
Flash Fiction: "Driven to Extremes" by Rachel Canwell
The doctor ushers Maggie in and peers at her, as if she is some oddity, an unsavoury specimen. He stares until she can feel herself start...
- Mar 30
Flash Fiction: "Lost in this Place" by Catherine O'Brien
There is no lyricism, it’s the melody that gets you. It keeps circling back like an ice skater with compasses for feet. There are...
- Mar 25
Flash Fiction: "You Should Always Do Interviews On A Full Stomach" by Slawka G. Scarso
The not-in-service train ran past, almost sucking her in its trail. As she steadied herself, she heard a familiar voice. Mrs Gardner? She...
- Feb 23
Flash Fiction: "The Vaccination Centre" by Grace Banks
Louise always thought that fainting would be a blank experience. But now as she faints she thinks of how she should have eaten breakfast....