Crossword Clue
Back in October 2016, the Scottish Book Trust’s 50 Word Story Challenge asked for writing inspired by this image from Markus Spiske. You can find my attempt below called...
Forest by Moonlight – Author’s Notes
Forest by Moonlight was a Flash! Friday challenge inspired by Sherlock Holmes. However, the story doesn’t have a very Sherlock Holmes feel. Dog Soldiers The first draft of the...
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...
Good Bits in Bad Stories 1
Those who follow my twitter account will know that I take part in the weekly hashtag game #1lineWed where writers share lines from their stories based around an optional theme...
Dancing in the Dark – Author’s Notes
For its 38th week Microcosms went a little bit different (and a little bit Bruce Springsteen) by reducing the number of elements down to two. Out went character and...
Peppermint – Author’s Notes
Peppermint is the second ever story I submitted to Cracked Flash Fiction. As I said when I published the story to this website, it was a hell of an...
Checkmate – Author’s Notes
This week’s Microcosms took inspiration for their prompt elements from the 1997 movie Titanic – with a few odd prompts thrown in for good measure. I used the three...
Humanity vs Survival – Author’s Notes
I’m still catching up with posting my old entries to Flash! Friday so here is my entry from October 2015. That week’s competition was inspired by the novel Moby...
