Twenty-Three Words
Microcosms 166 had an environmental theme with all the theme suggestions linking into climate change in one way or another. Unsurprisingly this resulted in most of the entries focusing...
What is Neon Noir?
Over the weekend I watched Mute, the fourth film from director Duncan Jones. I really enjoyed the film and it reminded me a lot of Terminal. Both films were...
Drone Racing
Microcosms is back! After a break of far too long Microcosms 165 appeared out of nowhere and I couldn’t not enter. The three elements I ended up getting were...
Chief Witness – Author’s Notes
In my introduction to my Cracked Flash Fiction tale Chief Witness I mentioned how the story kind of just followed from the prompt That was the dumbest assassin she’d...
Throwing Rotten Tomatoes at Captain Marvel Haters
Today is both International Women’s Day and the release date of Captain Marvel, the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or the MCU as it is more commonly...
A Squire and His Knight
All the way back in 2015 there was a popular Flash Fiction website Flash! Friday would post twice weekly flash fiction writing challenges. The Flash! Friday contest challenge on...
Terminal: The Good, The Bad and Explaining Too Much
Last month I talked used the Doctor Who episode The Ghost Machine to discuss how small writing changes could have made the story much more interesting. Today I want...
The Journal of the Empire’s Most Beloved and Extraordinary Explorer Reginald P. Smythe
Events that first happened on the 18th of January inspired the 158th Microcosms by events: whether it was an x-ray generating machine first being exhibited in 1896 or the first...
Space Rush
100th Microcosms we went back to the old format and were asked to submit stories that were only a 100 words long. They also went back to the first...
Foreshadowing the Ghost Monument
In my look back at Series 11 of Doctor Who, I talk about how the writing throughout the whole series (bar a couple of episodes) felt it needed an...
