Flash Fiction
I love writing flash fiction–it's the ideal break from 120,000 word novels. For the purposes of this list of stories which should still be available, I've defined flash fiction as stories under 1,000 words. For the full bibliography of my published or competition-placed flash fiction, click here. Scroll down to read 'Dark'.
A Family Resemblance Longlisted, Wildfire-Words Flash Fiction 150 2024
Angel Wings Artists and Liars
Dear John Farnham Flash FictionNatural Beauty Another Realm
Sightseeing Second, Wildfire-Words Flash Fiction 150 2024
Stone, Scissors, Paper Winner, Miniwords, Charnwood Arts
Who's a Pretty Boy? Miniwords, Charnwood Arts competition anthology ; Fifty-Word Stories
A Yarn with a Foreign Twist Fifty-Word Stories
Dark
Everything stopped. The film had been exciting, full of guns and squealing tyres. Now, darkness. Only the pinging of the cooling television told Carrie that she had not died. She shivered, and began groping her way to the kitchen where she kept a torch.
Halfway to the sink she stopped. There was no orange glow of streetlights, yet she could still make out the kettle and the taps. She went to the window. Hanging above the lamp-posts was a thin moon–'C' for Carrie. A row of stars like an unfinished sentence led her eye across the sky.
She was still standing there when the lights and television flared back into life. Her leaping heart almost choked her. She hurried back into the lounge, and oblivious to the hero taking the love interest into his arms, pulled out the plug.