I don’t normally write continuation of flash stories as I prefer the tales to be ‘self-contained’, but this is a companion piece to last week’s Third in the Polls. * * * Footsteps echoed along the wood-panelled corridor. Running the length of the east wing, the corridor’s walls groaned beneath the weight of valuable paintings […]
Creative Writing
#FridayFlash – Third In The Polls
Dai didn’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but as the new boy, the task fell to him. He took a deep breath and knocked on the door, hoping that his leader wasn’t the type to shoot the messenger. “Enter.” A deep voice boomed within the chamber on the other side of the […]
#FridayFlash – No Cats
It took Henri sixteen minutes and thirty four seconds to decide which mask to buy. Marc stood by the door, checking the football scores on his phone, while she deliberated over feathers, glitter, metal filigree or Swarovski crystal. He’d already bought his souvenir mask the day before, a dark red leather affair designed to look like the […]
#FridayFlash – Tourists
He crouched low on the roof, fingers curled under the edge of the tiles. A city spread out in all directions, a maze of red roofs, haphazard towers and imposing churches. A maze without street names. He’d scaled the Campanile and skittered across these roofs so many times through the portal of his PS3. Enough […]
#FridayFlash – The Raid
The man in the pinstripe suit strolled down the alley. To his left lay a Chinese restaurant, to his right, the Joseph Street Mission. He chose to ignore both, heading for a set of stairs at the rear of the mission. His footsteps rang out on the rusty iron, and he descended below street level […]
#FridayFlash – Ghost Train
The train lurches out of the Tottenham Court Road station and rattles east. Elsa flicks from her Kindle app to the clock – another ten minutes and she’ll be at Liverpool Street. Plenty of time to catch the train to Stansted before her flight to Naples. The train slows, and rumbles to a stop. Elsa […]
