We have some fantastic flash fiction lined up for December. Here’s a little taster to whet your appetite:
4 December 2020 – ‘Freewheeling’ by Martha Lane:
She pushes her bike – prescribed rather than chosen. Helmet on her head, clips dangling past her chin. Sad spaniel ears. She guides it, swerving round pedestrians so carefree she wonders how they don’t simply float away. Rise into the atmosphere leaving flip flops, sandwich crusts, and anxious bystanders to watch frowning, craning back, even heavier than before.
11 December 2020 – ‘The Sweet, Dank Grasping of the Land’ by Rich Giptar:
She hopes the Airbnb hosts don’t think she’s rude. She left very quietly at 7 a.m., easing the front door closed as she left the foreignness of another family’s framed affirmations and tide-marked wellingtons.
18 December 2020 – ‘Walls’ by Rayna Haralambieva:
I knock at the door. It’s not even eight but she comes out and looks at me with the permanent frown that her face seems to have grown into. I’ve never seen her face otherwise. I wonder what would happen if the frown disappeared. Would there be anything to hold her face together?
24 December 2020 – ‘Uncle Max’ by Emma Venables:
My father answered the knock on the door and Uncle Max strolled into our apartment with a woman who we had never lit a candle for. My mother dropped the smouldering match on the parquet and I, old enough to know basic fire safety, stamped my slippered-foot down upon it.
If you want to submit a flash for publication on our website, see out submissions page. We pay £10 for each piece published.
