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Category - Flash Fiction

flash fiction writing challenge
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Inktober 2022 – The Flash Fiction Challenge

October 17
by Tom Spooner
35 min read

Another micro-fiction writing challenge. 31 daily prompts throughout October. Minimal time, minimal editing, mixed success:   DAY ONE Gargoyle   HATE HOW YOU LOOK? DON’T CHANGE! JOIN THE GARGOYLE CLUB Gerald snapped a...

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sweets in 1990s
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

A day in the life in 1993

October 2
by Tom Spooner
4 min read

I wake up and run downstairs. My body is pure energy – sparks fly from my fingertips and lazers shoot from my eyes. I skid into the living room and turn on our rented TV-VHS combi. The Big Breakfast is on and I watch Zig...

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shaketember flash fiction
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Shaketember 2020 – The Flash Fiction Challenge

September 14
by Tom Spooner
62 min read

Shake is an amazing Bristol-based illustration event and online community. Each year in September, it hosts #shaketember – a month of daily prompts for artists to respond to and post on Instagram. It’s a celebration...

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lighthouse flash fiction
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

The Lighthouse – Flash Fiction

August 10
by Tom Spooner
3 min read

  The two men meet at the lighthouse, prepared to defend it at all costs. One carries a small step ladder, the other a fade and weather-resistant 5mm premium quality corrugated plastic sign. The men are steely but for their...

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freeze inktober 2019 illustration
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Inktober 2019

October 7
by Tom Spooner
43 min read

      Inktober 2019 – Flash Fiction   Week one Week two Week three Week four   WEEK ONE Ring I used to go to the attic to ring you.  It’s where I first listened to Guns n Roses, a safe distance...

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Moon on the motorway inktober illustration (1)
  • Art
  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Inktober – Week One

October 9
by Tom Spooner
10 min read

One ink drawing by Laura Morgans, one piece of writing by Tom Spooner, every day in October.   Day One New Adventures You can find adventure everywhere – you only need to be open to it. When you’re next walking...

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Fog Lake Virgo Indigo
  • Flash Fiction
  • Observations

The Laughter

February 12
by Tom Spooner
1 min read

  It echoes around the concrete, bubbles up like a witch’s brew in a cauldron, spits out into the night like sausage fat. It is cruel. But it is genuine. The skater lies on the cold ground, holding his ankles. He is...

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  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction – Bed

November 30
by Tom Spooner
1 min read

She grimaces, coquettishly, as she lies down. My bed is smaller than those in prison, the mattress thinner. Yet I have coaxed this sophisticated woman into it. I put on Dylan’s Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland and actually suggest...

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  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction
  • Observations

Pig

September 5
by Tom Spooner
1 min read

She had only bought the pig because the stain wouldn’t come out of the carpet. It was a bad stain, an ugly stain, and, in all truth, she was struggling to live with it. When anyone walked into the room, whether a man who had...

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  • Creative Writing
  • Flash Fiction
  • Observations

Mindhorn

August 17
by Tom Spooner
2 min read

There is a cave. It is in a wood. One day a young boy went to the woods. He spotted a shiny penny in the undergrowth. He bent down, thrusting his hand eagerly into the leaves and twigs. It felt wet. It was wet. Wet from the urine...

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