Unmanned – Day Seven of the 10 Days of Flash Challenge
This is Day Seven of Leone Ross’ 10 Days of Flash Challenge, running on her Facebook page. Do go have a look at what’s going on there. Lots of fun. Great for honing your writing skills. Today’s challenge was a super short 55 word flash piece in response to a photograph. There are five to […]
Untitled – Day Six of the 10 Days of Flash Challenge
We’re on Day 6 of Leone Ross‘ very helpful 10 Days of Flash Challenge. Write at least six short flashers – one to ten lines each. The stories all have to be about difficult ‘intimates’ in a single character’s life. Write at least six short flashers – one to ten lines each. It can have […]
My Man’s Hands and Pilar’s Knees – Day Five of the 10 Days of Flash Challenge
If you’re interested in joining the challenge, take yourself over to Leone Ross’ Facebook Page, “like’ the challenge and go for it! Today’s challenge was two short flash pieces of 250 words each, on body parts. One above the waist, and one below it. 1. My Man’s Hands “If you want to love me, baby, […]
Luck and the Truck – Day Four of the 10 Days of Flash Challenge
I’m participating in Leone Ross’ wonderful 10 days of Flash challenge on Facebook. She sets a new, quite difficult challenge each day. Today’s challenge was to take a single event, but vary the setting, the characters, the POV and the tone five ways. Unfortunately, my inability to follow instructions properly is at play, and I […]
Just Like That
Just like that, you might have… I can’t think about it. I can’t not think about it. I can’t push the weight of possibility off my chest. It sits there like an engine block, crushing me with parallel universes of outcomes. You could have died, before I even got to… Know you? Touch you? Hear […]
Laundry
What are these gifts that we’re given? These injections of time-released trouble, slipped between our cells so young and carried unawares into all our endeavours? I used to say that I was all my own, lived like a second-rate Aphrodite, risen from a sterile sea. Because to live another way was to acknowledge all those […]
Under the Livid Sky
With him, I can. Because he’s all bone and flesh, bear-big and fight-smart. And no matter how the madness breaches in me, no matter how blood-hungry its glory, I will never get the best of him. I strike him on the cheek, and he smiles and hits back, dislodging the sullenness of lazy lust. The […]
Carapace
In the dead room, tastefully done out in shades of charcoal, he comes again. A little slower this third time. His body goes rigid and he makes a sound like his orgasm has been wrenched from him with violence. As if I’ve shoved my hand into his gut and pulled out a kidney. Moments later, […]
Way Down There
He was a god. A disdainful, disappointed, impatient god. With his head and shoulders massive and black against the weak autumn sun. And me, way down. Down in the dark cold of the oily water that made me retch and clung to my face. My lovely new red coat soaking it up, dragging me down […]
A Writer’s Seduction
This is an erotic story about stories, about writing, about writers and readers. If you came to this page believing yourself safe or immune to my seduction, perhaps it is because you need to. Perhaps you are a lover who wants to be taken and ravished. Perhaps you hope to come away believing yourself the […]