Micro and Flash Fiction

Flash fiction has become very popular in the last few years. It is generally considered as fiction of up to 1500 words. Microfiction (also known as drabble) is are fiction of up to 100 words In addition theer are a number of other very short fiction formats such as The Six Word Story, Minisaga & Sudden fiction.

Here are a couple of my pieces and below are links to other Flash and Microfiction Pieces.

The opening to 'My Name is Dudley'

Jenny was really bubbly when Peter returned from work, much more animated than normal. She didn't greet him as usual.
"I have some news." she said and launched herself at him in a loving embrace.
"What is it?" Peter asked.
"It was a loving embrace, don't you remember them?" Jenny replied.
"What's your news?"
"We're going to have someone to stay."
"Oh, your mother's visiting. No wonder you're trying to butter me up."
"No. Someone is coming to live with us, permanently."
"We are not having her live here."
"Peter!" Jenny exclaimed, somewhat losing her air of happiness. "It's not my mother. We are going to have a baby."
"What, how... That's great. That's wonderful. A baby..."
"Are you ok about it?"
"It's the best news I had for - does this mean your mother will be coming to stay?"
"Will you shut up about my mother? This is our time." Peter and Jenny embraced like they never had before, well, only a few times anyway. They were so delighted.

You can read the whole of this Flash Fiction story here

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Chloe, My Princess

Peter sits by the bed. It is all too familiar, the tubes, drips, machines beeping and screens flickering. But this time it is his little princess, lost in the technology that sustains her. First Emma, now Chloe; she is all he has left.
"Chloe. The doctors say you can hear me." says Peter softly. "They want me to tell you... to tell you what happened." he pauses catching his breath. "Your friends say get well soon. It's like a flower shop outside, you wait 'til you see ..." this is harder than he could ever have imagined.
"Chloe. I have to tell you something. I know you've been told about the car crash, but... Princess..." he chokes back the tears, desperate to continue. "It's about mummy... She was very badly hurt in the crash; like you were." The emotion gets the better of him and he starts to sob.
"I need you so much princess... we need each other... Please wake up darling... I need you to be strong." The tears flow freely making wet patches as they drip onto his shirt.
"Mummy was so badly hurt that... that she's no longer with us. She died darling." Suddenly the beeping of the heart monitor increases.
"Chloe! You can hear me... Wake up darling... Wake up my princess. Daddy needs you... we need each other."
The beeping gets faster, erratic; a continuous tone.
"NO!" Peter screams, grabbing Chloe's hand in desperation. He breaks down, his head drops onto the bed beside Chloe's still body and he sobs freely.
Gradually he regains his composure and sits up, still holding her hand he speaks to his beloved daughter.
"You are going to be with mummy princess... Go to mummy darling... Be happy with mummy my princess... Daddy will see you both very soon."

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 All Aboard 

This is a recent piece and quite dark. It is probably more Sudden Fiction - you can read it here and I hope you enjoy it.

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 Time Traveller

John has discovered the formulae for Time Travel, now he must decide how to use it. - You can find out here and I hope you enjoy reading it.