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I met Christopher Forrest when I was four years old, on my first day at school.. more →
“I’d like to speak to my husband, Miss Carlton,” she says, in that imperious home counties accent more →
It wasn’t the death he had wanted. Then again he hadn’t really thought about the death he wanted before he died more →
Right back at the beginning the job was just a skinny wee thing. It wasn’t greedy and it wasn’t mean and it only took a little nibble from her out of curiosity. It was just to see what she tasted like more →
The kid in the red is there again, sitting on the middle swing like a cherry in a hanging basket. more →
A picture can tell a thousand words. A story can paint a picture in half that. Prepare to be amazed, titillated, intrigued, amused and reduced to tears in 500 words or less. Welcome to flash fiction at its flashiest.
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