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• September 19, 2017

  Ending: A Short Story

  Someone knocked on my front door. From my bedroom window I could see a dash of blonde hair but nothing else. Another knock. And again. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. When I opened the door she pushed inside, grabbed me by the throat and shoved me against the exposed brick wall. She loomed over me.…
• April 5, 2017

  Helping Hand – Flash Fiction

      There was a little girl who lived on the streets. She made what money she could from selling wild flowers, collecting them at dawn by the river bank far out of town. She made enough money to feed herself and, in time, to purchase a woven wicker basket allowing her to collect and…
• February 23, 2017

  Flash Fiction: Fairy Lights and Black Holes

  The cops glide by, at a leisurely pace, on their Segways. Slow and steady, helmeted, backs straight as their faces. Three kids, Lebanese, Caucasian, Islander. Backs against the wall. Two of the three sit obediently heads bowed. The other… not so much. “Sit down now,” says one of the coppers. They’ve parked their Segways neatly…
• March 10, 2016

  Flash Fiction: Sally Turner

  Sally Turner’s mum had a boob job before she was born. She did it to improve her chances of getting television work. It worked. She got a job as a tabloid reporter for three years. Sally feels sorry for her mum now, living back then when it was all about looks and people mutilated their…