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'Troubl' Achieved second round in Bridport Prize Flash Fiction.

Highly Commended in the Writers' Forum Nov 2020 National Flash Fiction competition.

Mr Big: read the story here.

'Tea for Two' Short Story published in Swoop Books Anthology 'Ordinary People'.

'Guilty as charged' CWA Short Story Comp - Shortlisted July 2022

'Smoke Signal' and 'Troubl' have both won Swoop's Flash Fiction Friday competition.

CWA #Pickapageturner competition entries

I got a bit addicted to this format - of writing a story in 280 characters. These are presented in the chronological order I wrote them...

Andrew f

Jul 5, 20223 min read

End Run.

[This was written for an NYC Short Story Competition. It came second in its group. The genre was Thriller, the location was a birthday...

Andrew f

Jul 5, 20225 min read

Shortlisted for the CWA Crime Short Story Competition

Very excited to announce that I've been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Short Crime Story Competition. 12 stories were...

Andrew f

Jul 5, 20221 min read

The Boatman

I felt pity for them. Their shapes silhouetted against the orange dance of the city aflame which licked at their heels like so many eager...

Andrew f

Aug 2, 20212 min read

Confettiphobia

The pages stood jagged and torn, waving gently in the breeze from the open window. Bloody fingerprints scarred the remaining white pages....

Andrew f

May 23, 20211 min read

Cleaner

I know. I know what they’re like. All prim and proper to the world but I see them. Oh, yeees I know. I see them. I see him like butter...

n0mad

Apr 30, 20212 min read

Stay Cool

“Everyone, stay cool.” Stay cool? It’s 80 in the shade what’s this fool blathering about? The queue at the rank is moving slowly, she...

Andrew f

Apr 30, 20212 min read

Troubl

They spelled trouble. She could see the writing on the wall, long before anyone else. It was plain as day. Three foot tall and bold as...

n0mad

Apr 30, 20212 min read

Peter Wilson

When the first thing you see when you open your eyes is the detritus of a London gutter, you know you've had a bad night. Cigarette butts...

n0mad

Apr 30, 20212 min read

The Rider’s Tale

Enclosed herewith is the strange tale of how Lady Wellerbry regained her sight but lost her vision. You will not believe it, of course,...

Andrew f

Apr 7, 20219 min read

De Orde

His hand hovered before he could surrender his signature to the page. The golden nib of the fountain pen poised above that neat row of...

n0mad

Mar 31, 20212 min read

Three, Four, Two, Two, Two, Three.

Just three words. That was all it took. Three words that changed his life forever. He wasn’t prepared, but how can you be? He took a deep...

n0mad

Mar 31, 20212 min read

Maple leaves over water.

An autumn day all red, gold, and yellow leaves sprinkling the pavement like discarded newspaper sheets. The days truncated by the low...

n0mad

Feb 21, 20212 min read

Pulse

Why he chose this place I can’t imagine. Down some fowl back street in the East End. Bouncer on the door looking ominous. He hasn’t...

n0mad

Feb 15, 20212 min read

Blind Fury

The anger boiled up inside her; it bubbles and steams until eventually, she will launch, roaring and soaring into the stratosphere. His...

n0mad

Dec 16, 20207 min read

Smoke Signal

Sometimes you miss that one special person when you’re too busy looking for them. *** Josh’s hand swept his unruly hair back from his...

n0mad

Dec 3, 20201 min read

Dogger

Loud music filled the room, making it hard to hear anything else. The whoop, whoop, whoop of Euro techno pulsed through the dingy...

n0mad

Nov 30, 20203 min read

Soundproofing

The little shit. I saw you picking your nose and wiping it on my beautiful piano when you thought I wasn’t looking. No respect. None. I...

n0mad

Nov 22, 20202 min read

Ordinary People: Lay-by

Headlights search the road. Rain mists the windscreen. Wipers smear, left, right, left, right, condensation fogs, the vision opaque. He’s...

n0mad

Nov 15, 20208 min read

Saving Christmas

“I’m sooo skint.” Resting his head on his hands he leans on the bar, slowly rocking his head left to right as if trying to wake from a...

n0mad

Nov 14, 20202 min read

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