flash fiction
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Cereal City Review
I have two new flash fictions in Cereal City Review. They take place in a small Catalan beach town during a mysterious power outage. Some think an invasion. Others a rare technical failure. No electricity or internet. No phone signals. No electronic payments. The stories are part of a novella in progress. You read them… Read more
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Squirrels and Ooglers
Have you squirreled away yr nuts? Are you a hidden oogler? Winter is upon us. Here is a short reading. Read more
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HAMMER AND PIGGY
Here is a story from Milton Keynes, England, in 1982, Coffee Hall Housing Estate. It is close to Christmas and after Guy Fawkes. Everything is shiny, especially the new 20P coin, an equilateral curve heptagon. This microfiction is from Never Mind the Beasts, my novel in flash fictions, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe in April 2020. Read more
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Stranger Things
This is a very brief excerpt from the opening of my new hybrid novel in progress: Squid on the Barbie. What is relationship between your environment and happiness? Influenced by the classical philosophy of the Epicureans and Buddhists, as well as the revolution of the surrealists, Pineapple and Don Whiskers move to Spain for a… Read more
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Tiny Creatures
TINY CREATURES From a novella in progress called Tiny Creatures. Lots of flash fictions moving into novela. Katowice, Poland 23rd August 2014. Read more
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What Remains
powerful story in Raleigh Review. Dani Sandal’s “WHAT REMAINS” http://www.raleighreview.org/flash_fiction.html Nails age. Memory fades. The power of fuck remains. The longevity of the fuck. The word. The life energy! Skulls crack like eggs. Read more
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THE FUTURE
In downtown Katowice, on Mariacka Street, we met a woman on stilts. We were in a pub called Kato. Kato had well designed street art inside its plywood walls. It was a make-shift pub. I drank my cold yellow beer. It was very fizzy and sweet and I held it by the handle. The Polish… Read more
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Gerald Goes on a Bushwalk (from We are Warriors Novella)
from We are Warriors (novella of flash fictions in progress): GERALD GOES ON A BUSHWALK Gerald wasn’t sure what to do now that the Spring Breakers were gone. A heavy slanted rain was lashing his forehead so he ducked under the cover of some bushes. He sat cross legged and began thinking about various ways… Read more
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THE COWS SAID MU
My new flash fiction “The Cows Said Mu” now up at Thought Catalog: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/the-cows-said-mu/ Read more
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my flash fiction "Białooka" now featured at Metazen
Do you know Białooka? A Polish fairy tale. With a nod to Camus. Come meet her over here at Metazen: http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11167 Read more
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THE END OF TIME (flash fiction by Brian S. Ellis)
“Darkness will become a straight line, even if you don’t intend it to.” check out “The End of Time.” A flash fiction over at Housefire Magazine: “The End of Time” by Brian S. Ellis Read more
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dogzplot news
flash fiction . . interviews . . . the best new small press poetry and fiction . . great resource: http://dogzplotnews.blogspot.co.uk/ Read more
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Never Mind the Beasts 