Flash Fiction
February 2019
Altercation
Fictive Dream (Biffy 50 Nominated)
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"From its cutting edge, the shards of an onion dribble onto the worktop; sliced like rose petals; like tear drops; like acid rain."
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READ
March 2021
Everything They are Running From
Cheap Pop
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"From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. "
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COMING SOON
May 2020
It was the Horse that Killed Her
Retreat West (Quarterly FF Winner and Pushcart Nominated)
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"Ambulance outside Old Lady’s house. Its blue light whirligigs round."
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READ
May 2020
The Long Road
Lunate Fiction
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"We’re on the long road, you and me. Dirt not tarmac. Potholes and pebbles. The trees either side weave their boughs into an almost-arch."
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February 2020
Stepping Out
Bending Genres
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"My second first steps are like a walrus in stilettos. Quick, slow, quick, quick, slow. Jelly legs buckling at the knees."
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February 2019
Constellations
The Drabble
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"The inner cavern is a spiral galaxy of planets and stars. It pulses like a bullfrog’s throat – alive but dying."
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READ
May 2020
How to Refill an Invisible Balloon
Green Stories (3rd Place)
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"His mum’s red balloon has shrivelled like a sun-dried tomato and is hanging limply by her left ankle."
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December 2019
Life at the Colliery
FlashBack Fiction (Included on Biffy 50 2019-2020)
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"It’s dark. Darker than coal. Darker than Ma’s eyes when I came home caked in mud after football."
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READ
November 2020
People Present on Carnaby Street
Reflex Fiction (Long List and Best Small Fictions Nominated)
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"Four murderers, one of them with horn-rimmed glasses. "
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READ
May 2020
Surreal Portraits of the Future Us
Craft Literary
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"In five years, on Space Mountain, we’ll blast asteroids to clear a path through the Milky Way."
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READ
May 2020
End of the Line
Splonk (Best of the Net and Pushcart Nominated)
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"She was a green thing. Fell for a fisherman with seaweed in his beard. They planted an acorn together."
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READ
February 2020
Important to Us
Potato Soup Journal
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"P is a dynamo. Kneeling. Arms like a sprint canoeist. She opens a packing box and scrabbles through the contents."
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February 2020
a list of things that are white
Fictive Dream (included in Best Microfiction 2021)
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"in the chapel, the chaplain’s cassock; her teeth, enamelled gravestones that bite words in half."
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READ
June 2019
Punctuation Marks in an Unknown Key
Reflex Fiction (Long List)
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"Morning. Post-wake-up kiss. Stretch. Shower. Dress. Lingering gaze in your direction as I leave the bedroom."
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Short Stories
June 2019
An Adverb Reacted Wearily
Queen Mob's Teahouse
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"It was a morning for seizing the proverbial bull by the proverbial horns."
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READ
December 2018
All the Pieces of Shattered Glass
Storgy
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"Clock ticking. Temperature below the acceptable minimum and not even the slightest sign of the heating..."
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READ
May 2019
La Maldadita
The Cabinet of Heed
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"Other times, I dream of anthropomorphic octopi who wear polka dot swimsuits and sip paper-umbrella-accessorised mojitos."
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Published in Print
Bath Flash Fiction Volume 4
Casanova's Mistress
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"He is afraid of slithering things. She has chosen her snake necklace specially. "
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Rag-doll and Puppet-man
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"Pouring beer is difficult with her felt hands; her unbending, stuck-together fingers. "
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Leicester Writes Anthology 20
Bottled Up
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"I collected seashells with a thought to doing something creative with them. My best find was a message in a bottle. Blue, frosted glass – I guess it was a gin bottle before it was requisitioned as a love note’s reliquary.."
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Bath Flash Fiction Volume 5
Conchie Faces the Squad
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"I chew through commandments as we’re mustered from the dales. No other gods, no idols, thou shalt not kill. Sergeant barks. The others fall in line. I fix his stare. He pins me down, digs in the shears till he draws blood.."
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Reflex Fiction Volume 3
Punctuation Marks in an Unknown Key
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"Morning. Post-wake-up kiss. Stretch. Shower. Dress. Lingering gaze in your direction as I leave the bedroom. Downstairs, mechanically munching cornflakes. Brush, spit, toothpaste on collar.."