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Posts tagged 'short story club'

It’s Short Story Month!

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

It’s that time again my lovelies, I’m back to writing, the sun is shining and I am looking for your short story prompts, ideas and opening lines to inspire the next offering to the club members. (In case this is your first time here, hello! The idea is that I pick a prompt, write a story [...]

Fighting zombies

Friday, May 7th, 2010

This time last week I was driving back from my friend’s funeral. Almost two weeks ago I heard the news of her death, and since then I haven’t written one word of a story. I’ve recorded a few for my new audio book, and I edited the latest one for the short story club and [...]

Friday Flash: The First One

Friday, February 5th, 2010

This was inspired by a prompt sent into my short story club by the sparkling Iapetus999 some time ago. It just needed to find the right home… — Cathy had known something was wrong when her boyfriend rolled the twelfth ‘seven’ in a row. Now he was in the cold casino car park, lip spilt [...]

How tea and shivers make short stories

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

As the number of Short Story Club members approaches its first milestone of one hundred fantastic, intelligent and extraordinarily good-looking people, I thought I’d explain how I write the short stories you all inspire. I did wonder if that might be boring, but several people I respect on Twitter said they’d love to hear about [...]

Friday Flash – Sunday Lunch

Friday, January 8th, 2010

They arrived at the same time and he parked his car behind hers. They embraced outside the garden gate. “You okay sis?” She shrugged. “Better. Do you know what this is about?” Josh shook his head. “She didn’t say, but she sounded better.”   “I haven’t spoken to her since last week. Work’s been mental.” [...]