Flash Fiction discussion

So I have my fourth collection of flash fiction published and out now in print or ebook.

Here's a video of two of the stories, me reading one about a superhero whose superpowers come at a cost and a short tale 'Lupus' told visually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeUK...

The prompts behind each of the flash tales in the book

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2...

"Her words lent pulsation to fixed objects and violence to still life ones"



http://www.amazon.co.uk/28-Far-Cries-...

A retrospective of ten of my favourite flash stories from my previous 3 collections

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Thanks Marc!

A buy one get one free offer on two of my flash titles:

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2...

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Long Stories Short

From

28 Far Cries

"Lupus"

His hide wasn't covered in fur so much as scales.

The only flesh he consumed was when his scabs rubbed off on his pillow and he unwittingly ingested them in his fidgety sleep.

If he awoke stained with blood, it was from where he had vigorously clawed at his nettling skin during the night.

He wasn't restricted to howling by the lunar calendar, for his lesions throbbed night and day.

The sole shape shifting was the slow collapse of his face as the ulcerations burrowed into the cartilage.

The medicinal silver bullet of the pill was failing to slay his condition.

This isn't from the book, but a flash I wrote last week and possibly the saddest one I've ever written

"Echoes"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

There's some really great work here... thanks everyone for posting links! Also a reminder that we are always looking for good flash fiction submissions at Cafe Aphra. We recently reached a record high in the number of hits we are getting, and it seems that our flash fiction Fridays series in particular is starting to garner international attention. Please check the blog for submissions guidelines and read them carefully before emailing us your work. Here is the link: cafeaphrapilot.blogspot.co.uk

My latest flash story on the blog is "People Watching"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

Watching them through a jaundiced eye... or lens

At Cafe Aphra, we do post up work that has previously been published, acknowledging of course where and when it was first published. So if you'd like to submit a flash fiction story to us, please check the submission guidelines on the website: cafeaphrapilot.blogspot.co.uk and email it to us as a Word document to: cafeaphra@yahoo.com Thanks!

It was very moving.

Last 3 days to take advantage of my buy one flash fiction, get a second collection free

Details: http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

28 Far Cries

Long Stories Short

latest flash story on the blog is "Wrist-Watching"

a meditation on a most richly associative part of the human body

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The importance of story titles when it's a collection?

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"The Gift That Keeps On Giving" a flash tale about buying affection

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I'm talking about flash fiction on Limelight Literature blog

http://limelightliterature.wordpress....

I have a couple of very short flash stories for you up on my blog

"Wings" http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

"An Ideal Woman"
http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

My flash "Bye Bye Lingual" is up on Gay Flash Fiction website

http://gayflashfiction.com/2014/11/22...

This originally was published in my second flash collection

But here's a visual treatment of it in kinetic typography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6pFw...

"Just Aphasia Going Through"

thoughtful review of on The Cult Den website

http://www.thecultden.com/2014/12/boo...

It has a stab at defining what an anthology is, even though I would say this is a collection, since anthologies tend to be stories by different authors

Here's a couple of flash stories on my blog about Death Squads which are horrible without being graphic in any way shape or form. the second one was written and posted just before the slayings in Paris last week.

"Laundry List" http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

"Hollow Point"
http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

I have a sample story from my 3rd flash collection up on Readwave

"Abecedary Incendiary" http://www.readwave.com/abecedary-inc...

How the extinction of animal species will diminish our own human imaginations

Thanks for crashing a thread promoting someone else's book.

Anyway, here's an experimental piece called "Tense"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

100 word drabble "Campanile"

A church has its bells taken away to help the war effort...


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and this week's new flash is also about a church in peril

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

latest flash offering weighs in at 300 words. it's about having a blind lover

"Eyes in The Back Of His Hands"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

Marc wrote: "Here's a couple of flash stories on my blog about Death Squads which are horrible without being graphic in any way shape or form. the second one was written and posted just before the slayings in Paris last week.

"Laundry List" http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

"Hollow Point"
http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk......"


"Laundry List" has been accepted for publication by "Apocrypha And Abstractions" in August 2015

so one of my more experimental narratives in a story I wrote over the weekend

"Overpass"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

The perpendicularity of bridges to the direction of our travel...

I read "Road to Nowhere" and thought it good.

thanks Gregory

My latest flash story is an unusual genre for me - Horror

A military band is "Disbanded" by war but reforms itself

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

My latest flash story is a historical comedy called "Occupational Hazard".

In an age when men were named after the trade they practised, no one is quite living up to their name

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I had a 300 word story published on Visual Verse in response to a photo prompt of a human brain

"Bas-Relief"

http://visualverse.org/submissions/ba...

latest flash is a 200 word postmodern take on the zombie myth

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

this week's flash is "Confirmament"

You know those Zodiac signs drawn from star constellations that look nothing like what they are supposed to be by the name? That...

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Here's a little flash prompted by an abstract image provided by Visual Verse

http://visualverse.org/submissions/in...

My 5th Flash collection will be coming out in September. 45 stories (Print edition, 44 in e-book) "Extra-Curricular" sees the stories organised into school subject themes.

But if you can't wait until then, here's a flash I wrote today that therefore won't be in the collection

"Memoirs Are Made From These"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

How our personal biographies are constructed for us

Hi Marc, just been on your site - really like your writing style. Will be reading more.

My latest flash story is "The Interrogation"

A torturer's wife calls him up in the middle of one of his interrogations...

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

today's flash is a compound tale called

“Slit Slot Aperture Gash Vent Perforation Shutter Foramen Chink Cleft Peephole Outlet Eye…”

a series of small but not insignificant openings...

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It's been a year since I started this thread and now I have a new collection, my 5th of flash fiction imminent.

Published next month "Extra-Curricular" has 44 (45 in print version) flash stories arranged around a school timetable.

Here is the trailer with one of the stories "Night Vision"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_OZq...

some of the story prompts behind the tales in my upcoming flash fiction collection "Extra-Curricular"

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

Images, songs, news stories etc

and today is publication day!

My 5th collection of flash fiction is available in print and ebook

Extra-Curricular

many thanks Carly :-)

here's a sample story called "The Disenchanted Forest"

where the modern world meets and redefines folklore


A faerie ring of discarded cigarette butts.

A henge of jagged bottles sawn off by practise bullets. Witches’ thimbles picked out in empty shell casings.

Wreaths woven not from acorns and oak leaves, but from silver foil and torn up aluminium can crack pipes.

A cromlech constructed from three abandoned shopping trollies.

Corn dollies festooned the bare ground, fabricated from condoms and tampons, corn circles of six-pack beer plastic.

Hag stones cultivated from car tyres.

A spineless scarecrow featurelessly fashioned from a mound of clothes and rags.

A small maypole erected from a medical crutch planted in the soil, while strips of bandages billowed from it.

Devil’s footprints forged from pillboxes, twisted glue tubes and lighter fluid tins.

Where rubbish had been burned, scorched into the grass was a black calcite outline of a prone man shorn of a wicker husk.

The giant ash tree stretching to the heavens had played host as gallows, suspending the lowliest man on earth from its branches.



Extra-Curricular

since I published "Extra-Curricular" I've written a couple of flash fiction stories.

"Spring Cleaning" about the lebensraum of technology
http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

and "Harum-Scarum" about the symbolic associations of human hair
http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

Good for you, Marc.

thanks Mark