Flash Fiction

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


  • Gossip

    It had long been said that Fleming Forest was haunted. The story is told, that two centuries ago a young servant girl had been brutally murdered in the nearby village of Gossip and her body dragged through the streets before being tied to a tree and left there for the local wildlife to feast upon.…

  • Diet Plans

    As the office left for a pub lunch, Rachel opened the folder entitled Diet Plans. Inside were 4 separate spreadsheets. Each one was labelled “NEW Diet Plan” followed by one of the following words: Maternity Bikini Christmas Cheese She positioned the mouse cursor over the word Bikini and double clicked. The hard drive of the…

  • The Plank

    “Walk the plank!” Captain Billy ordered, his sword swooshing menacingly above his head. I looked out at the wooden walkway of doom and gulped as seagulls and vultures circled and crowed above. The sea salt filled my nostrils and I began to feel sick. “b.b.but…” I stammered, one foot tentatively examining the boards. “But nothing,…

  • Stag

    Gerald peered through fuzzy eyes. His head was pounding, and he had no idea who had taken his shoes. As last nights of freedom go, this had clearly been a belter. He stood up, rubbed his peepers and took stock of his surroundings. He was definitely on a mountain. How the bloody-buggery-bollocks had he ended…

  • Feeling good

    Steven drummed his fingertips on the steering wheel. By his reckoning he’d now been sat behind this tractor for 15 minutes. He honked his horn. He honked it hard. Still nothing. He turned off the engine but, keeping the battery active, he switched on the radio. Barry White was half way through one of his…

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