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Baggage – #fridayflash
For this week’s #fridayflash, I would direct you to my flash fiction story ‘Baggage’, published over on Metazen this week. Click here, to read the story. Sometimes parts of you are better off in a bag....
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You Might Still – #fridayflash
Driving the motorway, a needle’s flicker over fifty in the middle lane, vehicles flurry by to the left and right and I scan their windows for a glimpse of you. M6, M5, M42, M40, A34, M40, M42, M5, M6....
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God Game – #fridayflash
Humanity was the hardest game God had ever played. Thumbing through the strategy guide and selecting an easier difficulty in the options menu failed to help. He rolled the scroll wheel, zooming the...
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What Precise Moment – #fridayflash
My flash fiction “What Precise Moment’ has been published in the September edition of Eclectic Flash. I have embedded the free digital version of the magazine below, set to open at the page on which my...
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Literary Cage Fight – #fridayflash
I lock my favourite writers in a room, each one stolen away from whatever they are working on, abducted in my unmarked black van. The room is furnished with simple benches bolted to the floor. A two...
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14 nights, self-catering in the Room at Arles – #fridayflash
The following flash fiction was written in response to the Van Gogh painting and submitted to the Up The Staircase Quarterly challenge. It didn’t place in the challenge but I thought it good enough to...
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Metazen publish Ultrasounds
Today’s offering from the excellent Metazen is my trio of pregnancy inspired flash fictions, Ultrasounds. One of the cool things about getting published over on Metazen is seeing the artwork they...
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Things I No Longer Wish To Possess
I’m very pleased to be able to say my latest short-short, Things I No Longer wish To Possess is up at Staccato. I’ve been trying to place a piece with them for a while now and am really pleased to have...
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Living Room Stories – Review
Living Room Songs is a collection of pieces recorded by Ólafur Arnalds which, some of you may recall, made the number two slot of my Top 5 Writing Music Albums of 2011. While I was busy last November,...
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My fleeting story.
Fleeting is a rather brilliant online literary magazine. On the about page they describe themselves thusly: Fleeting publishes exclusive short-form fiction, nonfiction and poetry by new and established...
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A Pack of Rats @ The Molotov Cocktail
Volume 3 Issue 10 of the projectile for incendiary flash fiction, The Molotov Cocktail is published today and features my latest short short story, A Pack of Rats. This issue also features Dream Girl...
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Best Of Net Awards nomination
Found out yesterday that my story The Man Who Lived Like A Tree has been nominated by the good folks over at Referential for this year’s Best Of The Net Awards. This is, of course, very pleasing news....
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My Life In Short Fiction – Calum Kerr
It’s been a while since the last My Life in Short Fiction post, but I am pleased to welcome Calum Kerr to the blog today. If I was to find out that Flash Fiction was Calum’s middle name it would not...
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Interview with Nuala Ní Chonchúir: Of Dublin blog tour
Nuala Ní Chonchúir recently launched her latest collection of fiction, Of Dublin and Other Fictions, in both San Francisco and Galway. If you read my review last week you will already know that this is...
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Flash Frontier’s February Feature with Ethel Rohan, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and...
Flash Frontier’s February crop of quality flash fiction is available to read for free on the site’s homepage. In addition, Flash Frontier’s February Feature includes an interview in which I talk about...
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