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Beyond your window, the drooling stars twizzle on their strings. They proclaim: all hail the monkey god. All hail the bollock-headed god of the ripe and arbitrary. The god of late-night radio phone-ins, microplastics and no-cheese pizza. Hail that hilarious, hungry, priapic deity. Teeth-bared, he capers on the cold bronze floors of heaven. The monkey god hoots as he rides atop ringlets of salt-scented cloud, yellowed and milky as spermatozoa…
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[ˈfɪkʃn]
- literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people
- something that is invented or untrue
The music leaked through the open door and sank into the carpet. With a slight gesture of the hand, Paula invited her client into the therapy room while she lagged behind just enough to breathe in and exhale deeply.
The client sat on the dark oriental chair while Paula zoomed through the registration form. Emily Brown. Delta St, Los Angeles, CA. No allergies. Back problems. Low blood pressure. No pregnancies. No migraines. Dry, sensitive skin. Body concerns. Poor circulation. Lumbar pains. Massage pressure: deep. How would you like to feel after your treatment? Blank space. Consent and agreement. Scribble. Date. August 12th, 2013.
Emily had beautiful, prominent clavicles that glowed briefly in the light of the candles. Paula kneeled in front of the washing basinet and asked Emily to soak her feet in the warm water. Was the temperature good?
Senior Management Meeting – Shane, Billy, Nile – 9:00
The job is not fully remote, but because no one cares, you are. Most of what you see of yourself is in the box in the corner of your screen. Your…
I hadn’t slept in a month, but I kept with the routine anyway. Get up. Work. Wine. Bed. It was the best I could do to take care of my wife and six-year-old son, a survival game that kept a roof over our heads and plenty of takeout bags on…
terence hughes
Lisa Vitale
Robin Harker
Claire Jaggard
Jill Craig
Harry Dobbs
Lara Hurley
Philip Suggars
Rebecca Miles
Matt Gillick
Jill Craig
Michael Trafford
David Lambert
Paul Lewellan
Ronan o'shea
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No internet. No books.
No message in your birthday card.
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[ˈpəʊɪtri]
literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature
I keep the cork from our French Bordeaux
movie night on the kitchen counter by my sweet
cigarettes and your lost lighter, our shrine
to Marlboro, as if you might drunkenly climb
past brick beehives and up my fire escape,
careful not to let the orange rust stain
your blue-black slacks that always smell
like spilled gin and lime juice and my rose oil
perfume, as if you’ll come to my window
like a drought-thirsty, flutter-hungry
hummingbird, knowing I’ll always feed you,
say you have eyelashes like a movie star.
Don’t you believe me when I say
I want you to crush and grind…
Sometimes we think we hear
their laughter clambering over
the back yard’s seven foot fence,
while we chuck boredom at the opposite kerb
and catch it bouncing back again.
The day Patrick slid his BMX
under the 17 bus and Joseph
got grounded for nicking
two quid out his dad’s beer money,
we knocked on their door
cos we didn’t have enough players
for our rounders teams…
I am as close to the start as I am to the end.
So these are my instructions. And I can’t hear you,
anywhere. And weather takes place in the home.
Smudge glass to gaze through glass. Clean
every view. Grow root crops, quiet, in the garden.
Keep an empty-ish glade, snot-toned pollen,
a few fat bees. Trap to release the glinting.
Fish. Be mercy. Be burned by the oldest god, the sun.
Bake brick. Stack and paint things cosmic-
blue. Don’t think but think of this…
Chad Frame
Christopher Jones
Colin Dardis
RT Castleberry
Jennifer Todd
Phoebe Gilmore
Gordon Meade
Thomas Dedola
Gale Acuff
Sara Eddy
DS Maolalai
DS Maolalai
Dominic Palmer
Chad Frame
gerard Sarnat
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[flaʃ]
- a brief fictional narrative
- a sudden brief burst of bright light
- a patch or sudden display of a bright colour
- ostentatious stylishness or display of wealth
Beyond your window, the drooling stars twizzle on their strings. They proclaim: all hail the monkey god. All hail the bollock-headed god of the ripe and arbitrary. The god of late-night radio phone-ins, microplastics and no-cheese pizza. Hail that hilarious, hungry, priapic deity…
8:08
Just arrived at Portland Expo Center. Inaugural “Artisanal Vendor of the Year” contest starting in less than an hour. Looks like I’m the only journo here.
8:16
Trouble early on. Bouncer [upper body…
There must have been hundreds of them, maybe thousands, but only on the one wall. They fit their small, black bodies closely together by pointing their wings upward, displaying the light tangerine color beneath. In this way, they painted the wall a warm triptych that made…
1994 – Cher
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Bathroom Attendant
3 strands
black/curly/synthetic
The hairs flash like a beacon on the bathroom’s white marble tiles. I wrap…
The room seems to have more shadows with it bare. Empty shelves. There had been vases and books and objects, articles of life. Modern art in oak frames; how cultured they were, their easy touch of class…
A postcard of a bear. I flip it over and read Dave’s writing (It’s me! Missing you.), then drop it behind the coffee machine, a space normally reserved for brown envelopes and CVs.
Sandra sprays and wipes the empty…
Elysia Rourke
Melanie Mulrooney
Sean Glatch
Andrew Wickham
Rebecca Klassen
Anne Wilkins
Marcelo MEdone
Stephen Newland
Karen Walker
Dylan Federico Pritchard
Polly Halladay
Rebecca Miles
David Kotok
John Sheirer
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
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competitions past
We did some writing competitions once. We might do some more again.
three rounds. three inspirations.
Check out the inspirations, judge’s comments and all the rest here.
round 1
round 2
round 3
The Top 10 of our first-ever flash fiction competition. Fandabidozi.
Our full report is here.
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