The Look
It feels like years since I’ve written a piece of flash fiction. Well, that changed on Friday when I wrote The Look for Katheryn J. Avila‘s #SwiftFicFriday. The prompt...
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...
Breather On Board
Microcosms 171 came out the same week as Scooby Doo, Where Are You? first appeared on TV. Of course, this meant that the writing contest would be inspired by...
“Is This Your Dog?”
At the last meeting of West Lothian Writers, we had a visit from former member and now published author Emma Mooney. She was leading a workshop on grammar and...
Cassandras
Microcosms 167 took place on 16th August 2019 which was the 42nd anniversary of Elvis Presley‘s death. (Yes he is dead. No he isn’t hanging out on the moon...
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...
Dear John
After receiving an Honourable Mention for my story The Journal of the Empire’s Most Beloved and Extraordinary Explorer Reginald P. Smythe last week, I went one better this week...
