Fiction

At the moment not many of my stories are available online, with the exception of what I wrote for the Friday Flash Fiction project. I’ll be uploading various old stories over the next few weeks or months, as I’d like them to at least be read by a few people.

 

Friday Flash Fiction

F3 was a weekly affair wherein writers posted a piece of flash fiction to their blogs on a Friday. No shit, right? Originally proposed by Gareth Lyn Powell in Autumn 2007, there have been about fifteen known participants and in the region of several hundred stories have been posted. Most of us have since given up the practice but it was good fun for a couple of years.

Illuminations cover

In 2008 a Friday Flash Fiction anthology was published by Odd Two Out. Check it out here – it features over 60 stories from the first nine participants and was launched at Orbital convention 2008. All profits go to the NSPCC and if that’s not enough to persuade you to investigate, I can threaten to kill some kittens.

Participants (in vague order of when they joined in) included Gareth Lyn Powell, Paul Raven, Martin McGrath, Neil Beynon, Gareth D. Jones, Justin Pickard, Dan Pawley, Greg O’Byrne, Jay Lake, Ian Hocking, Clive Birnie, Phred Serenissima, Gaie Sebold & Sarah Ellender and Sumit Dam.

All of my flashfic stories follow, grouped by year. Some I like. Some I like less. But here they are, warts and all.

2010:
51 – 13 Datums Dancing

2009:
50 – Funeral
49 – Colours Move
48 – Punk’s Not Dead
47 – Heralded By Iron
46 – Wanderlust
45 – Breaking the Circle
44 – The Time Before I Turn
43 – MySpace: 1999
42 – Total Campaign Dominance
41 – Some Kind of Superhero
40 – Two Thousand and Eight

2008:
39 – Bitterness The Star
38 – Signs
37 – Carried Out to the Sea
36 – Watching the Valves
35 – We’re Never Going Home!
34 – Our Bright Horizon
33 – Respawner
32 – Releasing Moments
31 – Skyflowers
30 – Earthbound
29 – Spaceman
28 – Interdiction Zone
27 – Binary Visions
26 – Turning Point
25 – My Mother the Robot
24 – Excerpts from Eastercon (Potentiality; Among the Stars; some 6-word stories)
23 – Deadblogging
22 – Memories of Place
21 – Carry These Songs Like A Comfort Wherever You Go
20 – Sun
19 – Love Story
18 – This Urban Aesthetic
17 – Human Interest Story
16 – The Future’s Bright – The Future’s Trivial

2007:
15 – ‘Farewell!’ Sings the Swarm
14 – Terminator
13 – Brighton After the Bomb (excerpt)
12 – Vote Now!
11 – Half-Day of the Dead (not flash, but shh)
10 – She Dances
9 – Slip It In
8 – Satisfaction
7 – I Am Colony
6 – Grey Matter
5 – Softly Softly Catchee Monkey
4 – The Heart of Liberty
3 – Art Show
2 – O Radiance, O Blessed Light
1 – Surreal Botany specimen: Urex pertorqeuo

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