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...
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...
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...
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...
Legacy Exhibition
Microcosms game with my story Legacy Exhibition. The 92nd Microcosms theme was based around Mad Hatter Day (which I didn’t realise was a thing!). Using the elements of explorer, museum...
Inspiration
A bit behind the times here but here is my entry to Microcosms 76 from back in June. As always Microcosms gives you three elements to inspire a piece of...
Dancing the Night Away
Microcosms added an extra – and in my opinion quite brilliant – element to Microcosms 72. The usual three elements were based around Greek mythology so asked us to create...
Kids Playing at Being Men
Another Microcosms entry, another crime tale! This time using the additional elements of businessman and car I came up with my tale Kids Playing at Being Men for Microcosms 61....
