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MICRO FICTION

At the market I bought a wish in a jar.

FORTHCOMING

SHORT STORY

He held up a jar of pickles to her and shook it over his head like a trophy. She stuck up her middle finger.

Published by

The Brussels Review

MICRO FICTION

The dead are dead, 

except when they're not. 

Published by 

Nebula Nexus

SHORT STORY

He didn’t know why there was a life-size blow-up T-Rex; he’d found it in the storage shed with step by step instructions how to put it up. Anyway, it was a big hit with the tourists and that was good enough.

Published by

The Mantelpiece

FLASH FICTION

Axel lands the Mustang Space Xplorer. “I cannot believe we found it! It’s exactly how Flyers, Fly-ins and Flies described it.” 

“You sure it’s still open?”

Published by

The Sprawl Mag

SHORT STORY

His boots knock slow and even on the floor, she is waiting for rain, sand crunches underneath his soles, her fingers are turning the pages of a newspaper.

Published by 

Maudlin House

FLASH FICTION

When the lawnmower broke, 

we did nothing. 

We never talked about it, 

we just watched the grass grow 

long around it.

Published by 

Ghost Parachute

FLASH FICTION

They were selected for practicality, nothing else, because they could hold foreign grammar, dead dictator’s speeches, photosynthesis simplified, pi and lunch.

Published by 

Southeast Fiction 

(defunct)

FLASH FICTION

Like a grandfather clock, the old oak ticks against the window. The carpet is pressed down in squares and rectangles, the way grass remembers a picnic. 

Published by 

After the Pause

SHORT STORY

As so many things that slipped away and turned from useful into garbage after wandering for too long, the birds no longer look for – or care about – 

the difference.

Published by 

The Missing Slate

SHORT STORY

You taught me how to align
the small, trembling needle
of the compass you carried in your pocket, the gold colored arrow pointing north (so I could always find my way).

Published by 

Lowestoft Chronicle