The Farmer and the Korrigan: A Flash Fic
A free flash fiction from my newsletter inspired by research I’ve been doing on fairy folklore in Brittany …
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Autumn in New Orleans: A Flash Fic
How did I come to live in a forest looking like a freak with Betty McLean, leaving school, friends, and family behind? Well for starters, the red-gold leaf was as big as my face. Which is why it was kind of bad it stuck to…
The Lamplighter: A flash fic
Maureen’s Halloween inspired free October fiction. A lamplighter gets more than he bargains for when he comes face to face with a ghost …
Ben: A Poem
Sadly, one of my closest friends passed away 2nd September. Ben was a wonderful friend; warm, kind, loving, gentle, passionate and caring. I hope this month’s freebie (a poem dedicated to him) captures some of what he meant to me. Ben We ballroom dancedthrough your…
Homeless in Paris: A flash fic
A homeless woman wakes up next to the Arc De Triomphe to find more than she bargained for when she comes face to face with Greek legend
Flash Fiction: The Hestia
This piece was originally published last year as part of IfBook Australia’s Open Changes project, but I thought my blog readers might enjoy reading my brief crime piece here. The Hestia My hips wedge against the boat rim. I can taste the roughness of knotted…
JUMP Mentorship Story Excerpt
It’s my turn in the potato pit, so I clamber along the side of its rim, covered in mud, trying not to think about how my brother died here yesterday at the hands of King Men. I don’t mind getting my hands and my dress…
A Photographic Response to Metro Winds
Why? I hear you ask. Didn’t you just review Metro Winds, giving it 5/5 inky star? Yes, yes, I did and that’s absolutely why this post. My reviewing policy for this blog is quite fixed. I don’t need to love the book or film to…