Read some Cutting Criticism!
I’ve just launched a new blog called As Quick As A Flash.
The aim of this blog is to write and post daily flash fiction, of no more than 150 words, inspired by the word-of-the-day at dictionary.com
The first story, called Cutting Criticism, has now just been posted. It’s a dark and disturbing tale of man whose critcisms really do cut deep.
Be careful about reading if you are of a ner…
Flash Newsflash!!!
I’m absolutely thrilled and delighted to say that I have qualified for the next round of the international Flash Fiction Challenge 2010 writing competition.
Having placed a credible 6th place (out of 22) in my group for the 1st challenge I really needed to pull out the stops in the next challenge to ensure I qualified for the next round. Much to my amazement I placed 1st place in the chall…
Dead Man's Ring
Dead Man’s Ring is number 9 in my daily Short Sharp Shocks – 150 word daily flash fiction, every day for a year!
Short Sharp Shocks no.2
The Rock of Aeons
“I never questioned why the Lord, in all his wisdom, had gifted my small flock the miracle he had. I just accepted the rock, which came crashing through the trees into our churchyard, as a celestial benefaction. My Lord moves in mysterious ways after all.”
These Short Sharp Shocks tales are 150 words long and are inspired by, and utilise the …
Short Sharp Shocks everyday!
Please come and support my attempt to write a 150 word flash fiction story everyday for the next 365 days over on my Short Short Stories blog.
Each story has to be inspired by and utilse the word-of-the-day at dictionary.com. Entitled Short Sharp Shocks these tales will be conceived, written and posted by midnight (GMT) of the same day.
I’d really appreciate your reading and commenting as…
Audio Readings
I’ve decided to provide audio readings of my Red Bubble stories for free over at AudioBoo. The first tale available is my recent Twisted Tale Gone Fishing which can be listened to by clicking here
You can listen to all my audio readings, which also include random readings from my Short Short Stories, by clicking here and I intened to post audio readings for all my Red Bubble short stories, …
It's a knockout!
I am currently participating in the 3rd annual Flash Fiction Challenge 2010 – an international writing competition – along with over 400 other like-minded writers from all over the globe. Essentially a “knock-out” writing competition, writers are placed in groups and are given 48 hours to formulate, write and submit a short story of up to 1000 words, on that group’s…