Flash Fiction

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


  • Inspired food shenanigans

    Life has a funny way of creeping up on you. Yesterday I felt my age. Actually that’s not true; what I actually felt was my back when I lifted a table down the stairs and into my car. Gone are the days whence I could lift bulky objects with gay abandon here there and everywhere…

  • Just do it

    I’m guilty. Guilty of not doing stuff with my son because I think it will be a faff, or a struggle or he’ll be too tired or won’t behave. That I’ll be embarrassed having to tell him off, that there will be nappies. Stuff like that. This weekend I could have said no to 2…

  • Elation. Grief. Suffering.

    A fellow blogger suggested to me that we start doing some artistic exercises. This coming off the back of me getting him hopelessly addicted to the Draw Something app and us having the same mentality in our execution – that being you draw the most over elaborate sketch for something like “carrot”. Using the oddball…

  • Focus

    It’s good to have focus. I can normally retain a decent level of focus for around 3-5 minutes. I’m quite sure that this is a level normally associated with children under the age of 5 and yet there isn’t a thing I can do about it. Even writing those 46 words took a lot longer…

  • bored

    Bored of cereal now. Can someone pass me that loaf of bread? Yeah, that one. The one next to the cheese. Fuckit, pass me the cheese too. And the butter. Give it. Give it. Give it!

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