
Purple Rain, by Andy Houstoun - Friday Flash Fiction
Nov 13, 2020 · It's from her student house in Leeds. Her eyes, wild and dark, stare back. Her skin is unblemished with naturally pink cheeks. Blonde, cropped hair hangs long at the front, blunt cut to her …
The Brioche, by Kim Gosling - Friday Flash Fiction
Nov 16, 2017 · The abandoned Brioche lies lonely and half eaten on the train to Exmouth. It’s only friends are the Pepperami wrapper and the grains of sand that have fallen from a tourist’s bucket and …
Onion Fest, by Paul Driscoll - Friday Flash Fiction
Apr 8, 2025 · August 2025, GCSE year. We'd booked tickets for Leeds Festival. The line-up was banging. In the tent, Ben showed us a baggy. Six pills, each embossed with an onion. "Tenner each, …
The Women Who Weave Fairy Tales Into Their Dreams, by Guy Fletcher
Along the calm waters of the Brahmaputra under steamy tropical Indian skies women by the mystical muddy banks weave fairy tales into their dreams as Gandhi so eloquently put it: beautiful silk a …
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the laws of physics, a member of that great Leeds side that graced football pitches some half a century ago. A tough Scot in a group of hard men who yet produced moves of rarely matched sublimity …
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Nov 29, 2019 · Love is the essence of being The ultimate companion The harbinger of life Tracing patterns without shadows Through the threshold of eternity An elixir of time Held in a dew-drop Amid …
Fried Rice, by Gordon Lawrie - Friday Flash Fiction
This story owes a partial debt of gratitude to a British TV cookery programme called "The Hairy Bikers". Only a partial one. His favourite meal – spicy prawn and pork stir-fry with egg-fried rice – could be …
The Donut Shop, by Lon Richardson - Friday Flash Fiction
Nov 20, 2014 · A woman and two children in a donut shop. One of the children, a girl about 3 or 4, holds a handful of coins and stands at the table where her mother sits. “Glazed twist,” her mother tells...
Stocking Stuffer, by Jim Bartlett - Friday Flash Fiction
Mar 12, 2019 · Christy tied off the bow and slid the present under the tree. Almost done...just one more stocking stuffer to go, and she was expecting that delivery at any moment. With a sigh, she let her …
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, by James B. Revell
Dec 12, 2019 · After the announcement the radio goes dead. I call out to my wife, and bring my disabled son into the living-room. I switch on the TV:... again nothing. 'NASA are saying that the meteorite they...