We have some fantastic flash fiction lined up for April. Here’s a little taster to whet your appetite:
1 April 2022 – ‘Slugs in Designer Colours’ by DK Eve:
The rain has let up and she’s walking her dog in the neighbourhood park. Broadleaf maples tower above the trail forming a canopy, leaves gleaming bright green, scrubbed of dust. Streams of golden pollen pool at the trail’s edge. The air smells washed, new. There’s a word for it, she thinks. Petrichor.
8 April 2022 – ‘The Problem With Trolleys’ by Danny Gertner:
It’s always the same; except when it’s different. The sun is shining. Sweat glistens underneath my hardhat. I taste salt on my lips. I’m going to die. Again. And I’m not the only one.
15 April 2022 – ‘Festival of Kites’ by Bradley Sides:
Boxes arrive suspended from nylon parachutes sometime overnight as the future participants rest, work, and play. At daybreak, on this grand holiday, the lids are opened, the materials ceremoniously unpacked and gazed upon. Oohs and aahs stir for rolls of emerald silk, cherry dowels, scissors, tape, glue, string, and gleaming white ribbon.
22 April 2022 – ‘Local Theatre Stages Angel Street’ by Penny Pennell:
I have a memory of that alley behind the theatre. The streetlight that buzzed and flickered, yet never managed to light the way. We played in that prop room. Do you remember? The one with the rotted window frame. Sneaking in while our parents auditioned, rehearsed, became close. Running and creeping, lost in shadows and play.
29 April 2022 – ‘The Flavours We’ll Lose’ by Brecht De Poortere:
My daughter, Chiara, turns five today. I get up when it’s still dark because, if I wait until after the Tuscan sun rises, it will be too hot to bake a cake. I pour myself cold coffee, then I close the windows and shutters to trap the fresh night air in the house. In the thumbed recipe book handed down for generations, I look up Grandma’s instructions for a sponge cake.
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