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Where The Timid Things Dwell

A recent entry to Flash! Friday in which you had to intersect the theme of “man vs nature” and the photo prompt (featured below). For some reason, as the title attests a staunch family favourite in the IR household filtered into the mix.

  Shipwreck of the United Malika in Cap Blanc, Mauritania. CC photo by Jbdodane.

    “And it was still hot.”

Wren closed the relic bound by tape and adoration.…

Recently I’ve been struggling to find time to write, life/work/sport and the odd glass of wine have sadly impacted on the writer resentful of the other facets of my existence. Still I’ve managed to carve out a little time each week for the various flash sites offering enticing prompts to stir my imagination. The tale below was submitted to Flash! Friday, with the need to include the moon as a…

Ah,

So summer has been encroaching on life, mainly the reality that nights spent hovering at 30c turns my laptop into a machine of intolerable heat and the kids are off of school. So things on the blog this time around have been quiet, but thanks for sticking with me.

A quick mention to the fine creative realm that is Flash! Friday, your humble scribe is one of the judges in residence for this…

Chef at the Trans-Siberian rail wall, between Moscow and Khabarovsk. CC 2.0 photo by Leidolv Magelssen.

This week’s Flash! Friday prompt was the above photo with the theme of treasure. The resultant tale below was given a runner up position (woo hoo) and, for the sake of my fragile ego, I’ve included the feedback below.

Hope you enjoy.

Ir

The Return

The compartment was empty apart from Astrid,…

The Fabulous Butcher Boy

Photo Credit: Forsaken Fotos via CC

  So this weekend I found myself entering the flash fiction competition held at Micro Bookends.The premise of the challenge is the usual photo prompt (as above) and a word limit of between 90 – 110. What makes it different is that you are supplied the first and last words of the tale.

This week the words were MEAT and FREE. The tale that I entered, which sadly…

Really pleased that today my 75 word flash The Choir is featuring on Paragraph Planet, inspired by the recent events in Ferguson.

If you get a chance to read hope it proves an enjoyable diversion.

best,

IR

Luminous Creatures Tale: Return Ticket

So this weekend had the odd moment to grab sometime to write flash for the virtual competitions that linger out there (wherever out there is). Was incredibly pleased/shocked/stunned etc to find my 500 word short entered into Luminous Creatures Press‘ Summer of Short Stories taking first place.

The prompt this week was this rather satisfied creature:

The photo prompt at first left me staring at a…

So the little badge above is a marker of my second Flash Master win at The Angry Hourglass. Some incredible work was submitted from some very talented flash writers, so to get the nod was both a surprise and a boost to the old confidence. The prompt was supplied by the talented artist/photographer/writer/raconteur that is @Theshakes72, who this week also doubled up as the judge.

Anyway, hope…