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The Selection Process – Friday Fictioneers, May 2023
Photo copyright Amanda Forestwood Kayla stops abruptly, and I know that she too sees them now. She looks around, scans the sky, confirming that nothing can possibly have passed between her and the sun. We continue climbing, Kayla trying to … Continue reading
The Spectator – Unicorn Challenge 12 5 23
Copyright Ayr/Gray It’s the dark winter walks I love best. Pretending Bess is checking out her pee-mails at a street-lamp, I side-eye the cosy scene in the house across the road. The Foresters always leave their curtains open, and I … Continue reading
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The Telling of Tales – Friday Fictioneers, April 2023
Copyright David Stewart “So… Grasshopper… of what shall we speak today?” Kwai Chang hesitates. That which troubles him greatly would, he suspects, be beyond the comprehension of his erudite Master. “The ewes are lambing,” he mumbles. The Master regards him … Continue reading
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The Acolytes – Friday Fictioneers, April 2023
Copyright Lisa Fox She had a way with words, like no other I’d heard. Engulfed in a wave of empathy, conviction, I was seeing the light for the first time. This was for me. And then I noticed. Every few … Continue reading
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The Joker in our Pack – Friday Fictioneers, March 2023
Copyright Liz Young Birthday parties were the total pits; his need to entertain was almost manic. “Your Dad’s real cool,” my friends would say, falling about laughing. “He’s a real dork,” I’d think, cringing as he performed his latest party … Continue reading
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Off The Leash – Friday Fictioneers, 15 March 2023
He’s had enough of her, she knows this. She peers down yet another alleyway, her hair clinging damply to her sun-stung neck. She knew he’d try to lose her; she’d sensed it over breakfast at the hotel. “I just turned … Continue reading
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Media Savvy – Friday Fictioneers, February 2023
Photo copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The thing about a crowd is that you don’t see the whole. It consists of individuals, sure, but the entity is unknown until you poke it in the tail. Then you know. The thing then is… … Continue reading
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The World Out There – Friday Fictioneers, February 2023
The need of others to demonstrate their affections almost immobilises her at times. Caught in the headlights of their emotions, whether expressed in words, gifts or physicality, she flounders. Love is an anathema to her, brought up as she was … Continue reading
A Matter of Minutes – 1st Place, Flash 500 4th Quarter, 2015
A MATTER OF MINUTES Detective-Constable Gregory seems tired, world-weary. “What time did you find the victim?” he asks, pencil poised. “I’m not sure. I left the nursing-home at eight, but Matron waylaid me. I missed my usual bus.” 8.41 actually, … Continue reading
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Ciao – Friday Fictioneers, 1st February 2023
Copyright Alicia Jamtaas Now. Now is the moment when two worlds diverge. He doesn’t know it at this time, but the very act of straddling the windowledge suggests she already has one foot in his world and the other elsewhere. … Continue reading
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