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 […]
Flash Fiction
#FridayFlash – To Boldly Go
The Captain sat at the desk in his quarters. He held his head in his hands, fingers raked into dark blond hair. Other men his age envied such thick, luxurious hair, but they didn’t have the technological advances of Starfleet at their disposal. The doors slid open with a hiss and a familiar figure strode […]
#FridayFlash – If I Only Had A Heart
A small black dog bounded along the grass verge towards a small wooden shack. Bushes crowded its four sides, and knee-high weeds clustered around the door. Dorothy hurried after the dog. “Toto, what have you found there?” The dog barked and sniffed at something just beyond the foliage. Dorothy looked at the thick bushes – […]
#FridayFlash – Living Hell
Agent Barnes picked his way through the detritus towards Special Agent Langley. Broken masonry and tattered advertisements littered the floor of the museum. Shattered glass lay in fragments between the corpses. “Yes, Barnes?” Langley didn’t even break her gaze to look at Barnes. Her keen brown eyes swept the scene, picking over the details as […]
#FridayFlash – The Usurper
Alicia stood in the living room, drawing patterns in the thick pile of the carpet with her toe. She’d only started dating Sean three weeks previously, and this was the first time she’d visited his house. On the way from the station, Sean confided that she was the first woman outside of his family to […]
#FridayFlash – The Fishwives
The fishwives stand in a line along the sea wall, their arms outstretched as if they’d hold back the tide. They wear near-identical clothing, choosing the drab colours of those who dwell in the Underground City. The only difference between them is within the lace motifs of their mud brown shawls, motifs which mirror the […]
