Edition 6 - August 2024
Six brilliant short fictions
Hi, we’re delighted to bring you our latest themed edition today featuring 6 brilliant stories inspired by the theme CIRCUS. As always thank you to everyone who sends us their words. We love the different ways the writers have used the same theme to bring us stories of oppression, jealousy, death, escape, love, and hope. We hope you enjoy them too.
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With love,
The Velvet Tigress
The circus is a liminal thing. It appears, tent-striped and dazzling, then vanishes into the night. It can seamlessly cross borders. Its red velvet curtains cut …
A Fathom of Trust
All I see is the audience, faces raised towards me. I smile. I swing. My fingertips leave the bar. Defying gravity, I arch through the air. I’m a shimmering bird in flight.
The Circus Came, and I was a Clown
Mum is unsettled by the equipment arriving, so I tell her the circus is coming. She loved the circus, took me there each year it came to town. Even when I was old enough to have…
Dinnertime at Our House is Like a Circus
Mum juggles plates while Dad clowns around. The air is thick with delicious smells and tension as Danny, my older brother, slides into a seat.
Not That Kind of Circus
The lights from the advertising screens are dazzling as you emerge from the gloom of the tube station into the cold December afternoon. Blues, greens, reds and …
We’re currently accepting submissions for Edition 7 which has the theme: IDENTITY.
Send your micros, flashes and short stories by the end of September to appear in the December edition of WestWord.
Plus, last chance to submit for the Past Times Prize, which closes tomorrow!
