Fiction

I have been following Leone Ross’ Ten Day Flash Fiction Challenge on Facebook which was bought to my attention by Remittance Girl. The challenge is currently on Day 7 but …

CW: Mother/son incest I never wanted to get married in the first place. It was you who was so fixated on the idea. For reasons that now I can’t even …

The last chance, the last wait, the last pause, the last date The last look, the last touch, the last kiss, it’s all too much The last dance, you and …

Your main character’s favourite band/artist is coming to town, and they will do anything to get back stage… Getting past security was easy. That isn’t always the case, some venues …

After twenty years, your main character steps out of the prison and takes in a first breath of free air. As the large iron gates banged shut behind Roma she …

When you open the front cover of a murder mystery do you find a warning inside telling you that stabbing people with a knife is dangerous, or, never go down …

The prompt for A Darker Flame this month is ‘A story based in the town of Cool’. I will admit that this one didn’t come easy to me. I spent …

“Charlie?” “Yeah, what?” “Clara is coming round for dinner, you going to come out from behind that boring computer and join us?” Leaning back in his office chair and looking …

* I have written this piece as my contribution to Stranded in Toronto’s new meme A Darker Flame. The prompt was ‘a medieval knight finds a mobile phone’ and the …