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My goal for July is to finish a revision of my novel, but I’m easily distracted by little story ideas. This one is featured today on Paragraph Planet. The first line is the title.
19 Jul 2022 1 min read Microfiction, 75-Words

Darkside

I penned the first draft of ‘Darkside’ as part of my homework for a short story course presented by Maria Bonar from the Society of Women’s Writers Western Australia.
1 Jul 2022 1 min read Short stories

Nanofiction

Nanoism is a twitterzine, an online publication for Twitter fiction: stories with a maximum of 140 characters (conforming to the original inherent limitations of the Twitter service). My nanofiction compressed a longer piece, first written during an afternoon of creativity at my house with my dear friends Gillian and Michelle.
29 Jun 2022 2 min read Microfiction, Nanofiction

I've been published in an anthology!

I created my Twitter profile to enter a competition run by Ben Warden as @FlashSerious. I entered two Twitter-length stories with the hashtag #SFFiction and was over the moon when I was announced as one of the winners on 25 April 2022.
21 Jun 2022 1 min read Microfiction

When I quit my toxic job to find something better

I wrote this little piece for my best friend and muse, Gillian Carter: read it at Six Sentences.
18 Jun 2022 1 min read Microfiction

Domestic bliss

My entry the WA Writing Love to Read Local Flash Fiction Competition is online.
3 Jun 2022 1 min read Drabble, Microfiction, 100-Words

Bittersweet

My microfiction ‘Bittersweet’ has been published in the 136th edition of Microfiction Monday Magazine. Some great stories in this edition, I am delighted to be included.
30 May 2022 1 min read Drabble, Microfiction

A new day

Marie takes a sip of her cocktail. She twirls the paper umbrella and glances across the table. “Am I supposed to be scared now?” “I’m not saying that.”
6 Apr 2022 3 min read Short stories, Flash fiction

Portal

You always hated Perth with its clean streets. There’s nowhere to hide from the wind or the heat. And the heat is on you now. You’re a scrawny kid, small for your age but a practiced pickpocket with fast fingers and feet.
6 Mar 2022 3 min read Furious fiction

Survival

What do you pack when you have eight minutes to leave? I can barely hear my thoughts above the clamour of the alarm. I glance at a photograph above my bed.
8 Feb 2022 5 min read Short stories, Flash fiction