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'The Acorns of Bartlett Park' is a piece of micro-fiction, that was written for and won the prose catgory of the Sydney Gardens Tre...

Photo by Kashif Haque 'Eclipsed', was published in print in the nature writing anthology, This is Our Place by Spread the Word and ...

' I Am Coin ' published by EllipsisZine started off at the Stay-at-Home Literary Festival 2020. The festival began as a single tw...

This story began on my way to work at our youth centre, when a young woman passed me wearing a mask under her chin as if it was the most nat...

'Watering the Garden at 4am' is a 50 word story published in The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang presents 'Millipede Ranch' by B...

...a recycled Oxford English Dictionary as trophy Twenty-one Species of Fish Called Sardine is piece of flash fiction in the form of a brea...

A Body of Water is an experimential piece I wrote as a breathless paragraph or as someone else pointed out, a stream of consciousness - whi...

Orphan Negative , a 75 word micro, was published by Paragraph Planet . This one was prompted by a QI episode - when I heard the term I knew ...

White Line and Forced Moulting are pieces of flash published by the lovely people at  Gone Lawn . Both are stories of mothers in cities do...

Like Rain was published in the Blues Doodles Word Collection 1 - Women celebrating International Women's Day and Month. 

Rot , published by Reflex Fiction started out in a Jude Higgins workshop.

Meat Raffle was published today in the debut issue of the Janus Literary journal. I'm particularly glad to see it out there considerin...

I Wear Other People , is a piece of flash published by  EllipsisZine . The first paragraph was written new year's day (thinking about em...

Providing Opportunities for Another to Excel is a 50-worder published by  50-Word Stories . It was inspired by those times when people feel...

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas   published by  Paragraph Planet , was inspired by all those Christmas trees that appear out on kerb the da...

Lovely to have a story up on Litro on Christmas day. There's no mention of Christmas in it but like my mum says lots of movies we watch...

'The Man I Live With' started off in a Sarah Spence online workshop as part of the Being Human Festival . We used objects from The ...

I was so pleased when How I Wonder was shortlisted for the Friday Flash Fiction's Christmas Competition.

Pine , published by Friday Flash Fiction was inspired by some of the stories about the homelessness of children in the news and the course ...

'Between Rivers' was published in the 2020  City Lit anthology launched on December 4th. Check out a free digital copy here or buy ...

Menhirs  - a 100 word micro, published by Friday Flash Fiction , began at the start of the March 2020 lockdown with a picture of chairs in a...

The Black-lacquered Bowl found its perfect home with Fudoki . Check out their lovely online magazine for your fix of fabulous Myths, Legend...

The Succulent , published by 50 Word Stories , started life in a Charlie Latt writing class when we were asked to pick an object in the room...

Photo by  Deepansh Khurana  on  Unsplash Beans was written for the Mum Life Stories anthology and Micro Fiction competition and I was delig...

The Indentation of Pearls made it as a Finalist and will be published in the Hysteria paperback anthology with quite a few writers I admire...

Dear Joy is a drabble I wrote, at a time joy seemed to be in short supply and it popped up this evening on Friday Flash Fiction . 

    The Proper Respect for Water , a piece of flash fiction, about a girl learning to navigate, float and swim in the patriarchal seas, was ...

Bubble-wrap and Brown Paper , published by Virtualzine , was born in the Bishopsgate Institute during a Vicky Grut creative writing class ...

Cloudburst '72 is published in the Cyberpunk 2020 issue of The London Reader . I'm delighted to have my name on the same front pag...

Contact Lenses found the perfect home in Reflex Fiction (the name says it all). They publish stories between 180 and 360 words - the perfe...

Connected is another 75 word micro published by Paragraph Planet prompted by this Independent article with the headline: MYSTERIOUS '...

Overcharged with Dead was inspired by a QI fact and a Jude Higgins online workshop prompt. I wrote the words 'Winchester Geese' on...

I wrote Remington Made Typewriters after watching a great documentary (if you love typewriters) starring Tom Hanks called California Typewr...

Paper Cranes , published by 50-Word Stories , is a micro I wrote on the 6th of August, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshi...

Duck and Cover was one of the winning stories performed by the wonderful Lin Sagovsky at the 'Women and Girls' Liars League event ...

This micro, published by Paragraph Planet  on August 6th, was inspired by a video of the joy of a Ukrainian girl landing her first kickflip....

Covid19 Time Capsule Items List (Archive Copy) was chosen by 100 Words of Solitude to complete the ' Life in the time of Corona ' ...

a measurement of silence in one hundred words was chosen by Fish Publishing to be third in the poetry section of their Lockdown Prize . Th...

The Berlin Heart  is in Paper and Ink Literary Zine #16 , the Rebellion Issue. Available for pre-order. One pound from every zine pre-order...

Circle Time was one of the winners of the Waterloo Festival short story competition run in collaboration with Bridge House Publishing wit...