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'.
Altitude Miniwords, Charnwood Arts competition anthology
The Case of the Geometric Pattern The Binnacle Ultra-Short 7th Edition 2010
A Family Resemblance Longlisted, Wildfire-Words Flash Fiction 150 2024
Harvest-time Editor's Choice The Binnacle Ultra-Short 12th Edition 2015
A Matching Pair Third, Bowers Gifford & Benfleet Residents' Association competition
Natural Beauty Another Realm
Oxygen The Binnacle Ultra-Short 10th Edition 2013Plucked from Obscurity The Binnacle Ultra-Short 9th Edition 2012
Reflections The Binnacle Ultra-Short 11th Edition 2014
Sightseeing Second, Wildfire-Words Flash Fiction 150 2024
Stone, Scissors, Paper Winner, Miniwords, Charnwood Arts
Weather or Not The Binnacle Ultra-Short 13th Edition 2016
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.