“This morning Donna’s life fell down. She was at the shop when it happened, the corner shop run by the Chowdry family”
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Our Flash of Inspiration this month is “Invasive Species” by Marie Gethins a thrilling tale set in Antarctica that set us thinking about the environment and the delicate balance in ...
“And high in the sky Orion the hunter wakes up and discovers his belt is gone.” Two children encounter Orion’s belt and play unaware that above them, the giant ...
“The sight of them makes me shrink away from my window, draping the curtain around me for protection.”
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“You wanna hear this funny story, D??????? I’m studying languages these days as like my fifth hobby” A young artist writes a stream of consciousness letter to one of her ...
“He stood on the hill looking down onto the plain and tried to imagine the ghosts of the Champa but instead could hear only the cries of tropical insects in ...
“We burnt the machine that evening. No-one suggested it. There was no discussion. If I looked at it too long I felt like I could begin to discern its purpose. ...
“In the middle of me saying something – ‘Hang on, Terry’s up.’ And she’s off, to fix my brother.”
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“His goal to impress her with wit and initiative had dissolved into caffeine, melatonin, alcohol and self-doubt.”
A whirlwind business trip leaves a new employee dazzled and deflated.
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Our Flash of Inspiration for November is “Grass” by Christina Sanders, an accomplished piece of writing that grabbed my attention with the very first word.
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‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ She heard a thump-thump. ‘I swear it’s purring.’
A strange and beautiful moss-like creature slowly invades the Antarctic while the curious researchers ...
“What, you wonder, would Derrida make of that?”
A wistful meditation on memory and life by Christina Sanders
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Childhood memories vividly recalled in this contemplative piece by Zvezdana Rashkovich.
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A faithful wife donates an eye to help her blinded husband. But was her sacrifice in vain?
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In the first installment of our new Flash of Inspiration feature, we talk to Tania Hershman about her story ‘Think of Icebergs.’
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“We sit down at the table by the window and before Mom asks, I say I want a strawberry milkshake. She could’ve remembered by now, I always want the same.”
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A young girl asserts her independence after the accidental death of her cousin.
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There’s a girl who works at a flower market and the protagonist is another girl who goes there every day that it’s on to buy a tulip bulb.
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Karen was part of our severance package. We were going to have a meeting with her each week. Karen was small and determined and her spiky blond hair looked like ...
“More, give us more, we’ll never be satisfied, never stop. We scream and beg, order and demand, plead and grovel over a simple thing, not all too different from you ...