Flash Fiction

Discover my 100 word stories and other bits and pieces added to the blog over the years.


  • Handle With Care

    “This is genius,” thought Arthur. “Nobody is ever going to find me in here. I am quite literally the best at hiding.” Minutes passed. Arthur reached into his pocket and pulled out a packet of chewing grass. Arthur chewed. Hours passed. “Ppfftt,” he said out loud. Another hour passed. “The thing about hiding,” he mused,…

  • Walter Wants Water

    Walter smiled. His previously clenched eyelids had loosened but not opened, and his eyes twitched beneath them. The cascading waterfall he was currently bathing in was half a world away from the dusty, red sand where he lay. The dust and dirt of which covered him, clogged every pore and yet proved to be a…

  • Mavis Pops To The Shops

    Mavis peered through the gap in the curtains. The storm hung in the air, threatening to unleash its rage in a flurry of rain, hail, thunder and lightning. It‘d been like that for a while. Mavis released the curtain. The deep red drapes tumbled closed and the room was once again plunged into darkness. She…

  • Stone the crows

    “I wish I was immortalised in stone,” mused Henry. Chris pondered this strange statement from his friend. He’d heard some odd waffle from his companion over the course of 67 years, but this was right up there. “But you wouldn’t be able to move,” he offered. “You’d be encased in granite or marble, or limestone.…

  • Your mum

    – Tap the icon. Yes. – No, not that one. The other one. The one with the camera. – Have you got it? – Ok, yes. The camera icon. – Icon. – Eye. Con. – It’s a graphic. An image. A little square. It represents the app. – Yes. – Yes, an app. – An…

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