Cli-Fi

Check out some of my online flash fiction which includes nature, growth in all its connotations and climate concerns around weather, environment, migration, mental health, fertility, cycles and inequality. From 50 words anthropomorphising a succulent to speculative fiction about babies sold in convenience stores or houses with built-in skies.

 

🌴  The Fish Tank Mangroves Canopy - Urban Tree Festival Shortlist 

🌴  The Norwegian Spruce Seeds of the Svalbard Vault UTF Longlist

🌴  The Life Cycle of Fire & Note Craft

🌴  The Animals of Göbekli Tepe  The Phare Podcast

🌴  Always Sunset Retreat West Flash Festival Competition

🌴  Plink Paragraph Planet

🌴  Our Lady of Perpetual Plastic  & Smoke & Mirrors interview Smokelong Quarterly

🌴  Eclipsed Spread the Word & London Wildlife Trust This is Our Place Anthology

🌴  Woodbine Reflex Fiction Autumn 2021 Flash Fiction Competition (4th place) 

🌴  The Acorns of Bartlett Park  Sydney Gardens Park Bath Tree Weekender prose winner. 

🌴  Watermelon Metropolis Litro Magazine - Nature Issue

🌴  Convenience Store Babies Janus Literary Issue 5

🌴  Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine  Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Winner

🌴  No Birds' Nests in the Tree Next Door NFFD Flash Flood Journal  

🌴  Sowing Sea Meadows   Litro 

🌴  The Succulent  50 - Word Stories

🌴  Tulips for the Homeless  Reflex Fiction  

🌴  Other Uses for a Woman's Body  Lunate Int. Women's Day Micro Competition Winner

 

Cloudburst '72

Cloudburst '72 is published in the Cyberpunk 2020 issue of The London Reader. I'm delighted to have my name on the same front page as one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement and Nebula award winners like Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly, and Cat Rambo and Arthur C Clarke Award-winners Gwyneth Jones and Lauren Beukes....and Jakub Szamałek - the principal writer for the game Cyberpunk 2077. Pretty illustrious company for my little story!

But more than that I'm glad to have a platform to explore climate change, sustainability, technology and the human relationships of the future.

The London Reader’s Foreword: This sharply-worded piece of minifiction by Rosaleen Lynch cuts into 2172 and a world ravaged by climate change. Her quick-paced and fine-tuned take on a solarpunk future explores the dense subjects of climate catastrophe and reproductive technology. Despite the state of the devastated world, life emerges when least expected.

Other Uses for a Woman's Body

'Other Uses for a Woman's Body' was written to address Lunate's themed competition for International Women's Day. As I usually write with more than one theme in mind when our Idea Store Creative Writing Class tutor talked about Green Week at the library and writing themed flashes for that I entwined the themes with first line I liked as a starting point:

"When we ran out of sandbags we used our women's bodies."

"Other Uses for a Woman’s Body by Rosaleen Lynch. This story captivated us with a dystopian world and the sense of history and carefully constructed sense of family contained within. So much is achieved in this small story, containing a deeply compelling narrative voice and imagery that stuck with us long after we finished reading. It is a story that throws its reader into the deep-end of the action and keeps them there, unable to turn away from the unfolding events, rescuing them only at the very end with a sliver of hope"

52x52: Give Eco Energy

52 random acts of kindness that each take under 52 seconds. One action each week, over a year takes less than an hour of your life.

Switch on to energy saving light bulbs to save energy and money. Give someone one with info on what they can do to alleviate climate change while saving money.

Seen as a 'major leap for mankind', climate change talks  in Paris have resolved in agreed accountable temperature and emissions limits as well as a move away from fossil fuels to renewable sources.

This is big. Just like recycling and Fairtrade, we had little hope they would catch on but did them anyway and they have.

So of the hundreds of things we can do to save energy and the repercussions of our energy use changing to energy saving light bulbs can save up to £35 and 120kg of carbon dioxide a year (Energy Saving Trust).

Give someone an energy saving light bulb - to save energy, money and the planet.

Guardian Article - Paris Climate Deal: Nearly 200 Nations Sign in End of Fossif Fuel Era (12.12.15)

People's Climate March London