Elizabeth Chats With…Allison Symes
Today’s guest is a fellow Swanwicker. She is a writer of short stories (including flash fiction), novels and some poetry; and she loves writing what she calls fairytales with bite….
July’s Pot Luck Club
So for the second time in three months, we have five Mondays in the month. So, I offer you another helping from the Pot luck Club. This time, I’m going…
Pot Luck Club
I write my blog (nearly) every week, on a Monday. Being a structured person, I work to a fixed monthly pattern which changes occasionally, but is currently: week 1, Music and…
The Chase
[I’ve always tended to write pleasant stories, with good characters who get what they desire – and deserve. In fact, I’m thinking of calling my next anthology Nice Stories with Happy Endings….
Danny’s Jacket
Today’s snippet grew out of a writing exercise at Chudleigh Writers’ Circle. We all wrote the opening sentences for short stories, then shared them with the group. The most popular sentence…
The Cheat
Today’s snippet of new prose is a piece of flash fiction arising from another of Morgen Bailey’s Story Writing Exercises: Monday Monologue: Her girl/boyfriend is cheating on her [25th February 2013]. It’s…
Flashing in Worcester
Last week, I received an email telling me that I was shortlisted in the Flash Fiction competition running in Association with the Worcestershire Literary Festival. Yesterday, I joined other finalists…