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Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash fiction. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 June 2025

Flash fiction: When Time Stands Still

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  A hurricane lashes Pershing Square That night I went to meet Cara, it was October and it was raining. October is great in New York City; t...
Saturday, 15 February 2025

Flash fiction: A History Lesson

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Why do we study it?  It was the last lesson of the day. Mr Balcombe donned his mortarboard and his gown. White chalk powder adorned the la...
Saturday, 25 January 2025

Flash fiction: The Creatives

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Meeting a tech bro Mandy had seen most of the building now. It was striking; a series of inverted V-shaped spars, roofed to halfway down, ...
Sunday, 18 August 2024

Flash fiction: Cold

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Everything is cold here  “Dammit.” “What?” “This form. It wants her place of birth.” He was a compact man of 30 with slicked-back hair...
Saturday, 20 July 2024

Flash fiction: Solitude

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 A Cold War memory “Nikolai Ivanovich, it is time.” Nikolai stood, steadying himself with a hand on the luggage rack; the they were still ...
Tuesday, 7 May 2024

Bite-sized fiction

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Succulent chunks of fresh fiction, cooked at your table and served sizzling hot, with our special spicy sauce Over the last few months I’v...
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Mike Robbins is the author of six books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change; and a novella, Dog! (2015). He was born in London but has lived in many countries. (Pic: S. Ligabue)
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