Category Archives: Flash Fiction

Fear and Fiction: Britain 5 Years After The Coup


My latest flash fiction at Spillwords.com I’m horrified. I’m not the only one. We have to be scared for the first time in decades. Step out of line and they will try and finish you. They are after Letitia James, for doing her job by holding the President to account. And she is just theContinue reading “Fear and Fiction: Britain 5 Years After The Coup”

Analog Life


Your life without a computer: what does it look like? Pupils have never known life without a cell phone, some were born after the smartphone or iPhone. They have never known non-digital life. I have, and I’ve recorded it in my trilogy, ‘Angst and the Beatles generation’. You want to know how we got aContinue reading “Analog Life”

I heard the river laugh


It is finished. 16 short prose pieces – or are they poems? I don’t know, but I have received great praise at open mic readings. Numbers 1 to 5 have been posted here. Now the entire collection is available through Amazon, as a beautiful chapbook or full colour eBook. But if you would like anContinue reading “I heard the river laugh”

No room for heroes.


Flash fiction time. Devinia, would describe herself as a country girl – horses, dogs, hunting, polo and cold showers in summer. That was her sort of thing. She was larger than life in other ways, too. No male could claim not to notice her hour-glass shape when pressured by jodhpurs and riding britches. I madeContinue reading “No room for heroes.”

Socialist Art. Really?


Mindfulness not only comes in useful to determine what we thought at the moment, but eighty words might reveal what the model was thinking. Who knows? Damned artists! I sit here, in the altogether, pretending to be a wronged goddess. Thank goodness he agreed to put in the animal parts, later. The smell was somethingContinue reading “Socialist Art. Really?”

Lockdown musings about the hetero spectrum.


Scams during lockdown are rife. Here is a contrast between women at either end of the honesty spectrum.