100 Word Story: Popping Off

Posted on March 19, 2021     Leave a Comment

It’s time I subjected you all to another one of my under-performing flash fictions I nevertheless believe in.

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Throwback Thursday: The Fireplace Coppers

Posted on November 7, 2019     Leave a Comment

I wrote this story earlier this year as an entry for a short story competition. Alas, I did not win and therefore was not published in print or online so I’ve put it here instead. The rules of the competition were that it was to be fewer than one hundred words long and given my frustrating tendency towards long-windedness, I thought it was worth having a go at…

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Throwback Thursday: Popping Off

Posted on September 19, 2019     Leave a Comment

Of all the flash fictions I’ve published on Penstricken over the years, I think this one is my personal favourite. I was originally inspired to write this story by the quote from Plato: ‘I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power’, but it quickly turned into a story about greed, family and how people face their own mortality.

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100 Word Story: Popping Off

Posted on February 11, 2018     2 Comments

It’s time I subjected you all to another one of my under-performing flash fictions I nevertheless believe in.

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