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Flash fiction. Parakeets Fly East, by Dylan Federico Pritchard. Image: a parakeet sitting atop a beer can.
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Flash fiction. Parakeets Fly East, by Dylan Federico Pritchard. Image: a parakeet sitting atop a beer can.

Dylan Federico Pritchard

Dylan Federico Pritchard is a fiction writer who grew up in Rome but now lives in South East London. He is currently working on a novella and a collection of short stories. His work has been long listed for the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize 23/24.

‘Mum said they escaped a zoo. Or George Michael had sixty in his house. Released them,’ Jackson laughed without smiling. ‘She always changed her story. Expert liar.’

Flash fiction. Better Things, by Harry Dobbs. Image: A man looks out of a cafe window with his head in his hands. On the street outside the cafe, there is a tree, a man, and a woman walking oast with some dogs.

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Flash Fiction. The B Word, by Stephen Newland. Image: a silhouette of a chalkboard with an anatomical drawing of a bluebottle fly. On the left of the image, a swarm of flies.

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Poetry. Three Resurrections, by Gordon Meade. Image: Three silhouettes of a mammoth, a wolf and a goat.

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Poetry. In That Life by Phoebe Gilmore. Image: the silhouette head of a woman looks out, while behind her a second, lighter shadow looks out.

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Flash fiction. Letters to Constance, by Melanie Mulrooney. Image: the silhouette of a 19th century woman in a fancy hat. On her silhouette are words hand-written in elegant calligraphy.

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Flash fiction. Weather Proverbs Explained, by Ingrid Jendrzejewski. Image: on the left half of the picture is the silhouette profile of a man shouting; on the right is the white silhouette profile of a young woman. In the background, the sun, clouds and the moon, cut into stripes.

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