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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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Thirteen

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Frankie’s Moving Day

Transmutation

When Mam Became A Love Goddess

Third time’s a charm, honey

Mrs Metamorphosa’s Emporium

Stella kept on fading until she almost couldn’t be seen at all

Being Martina Navratilova

Safe Houses

Creating Complex Characters in Short Fiction

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Adrift

Retirement

Give Thanks to The Trust

The Last Catch

Opening Night at The Pestaurant, June 2054

Dog Eat Dog

Striking

A Mermaid Talks To an Alien in a Sea Cave

Where to Find Eden

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The Day the Streets Shook

The Dark Side

A Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog

A Boy's Guide to Leaving Home

Berkeley

The Summer of ’76 When I Wasn’t Quite a Man

The Ride to Oblivion

Author Insight: Geoffrey K. Graves

Final Monthly Micro of 2024!

2024 Past Times Prize Shortlist

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Sindy Saves The Day

Simmering Tensions

Extinction Rebellion

Surrey League, Match Four, Lloyd Park

Growing Pains

Turns

Publish or Perish

Why It Was Me That Ended Up Being Raised by a Wolf and Not My Twin Wolf-Sisters

Torn

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White Space

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Christmas Story Countdown

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The Castle

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Every Thirty Seconds

Infinity Pool

Marie Antoinette Comes To Marilyn Monroe In A Dream

At Night I Dream of Van Gogh Skies

Coffee with Harry Styles

The Function of Dream Sleep

The Picture of Dori Gray

Windshield Wipers

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The Sea Chest

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The Boaters

Still Life

Still Life With Stickup

Strange Tranquility

Something To Talk About

Ripples

I'll Be Back

Calmer Waters

A Fear Of Open Water, Or, Perhaps, Something Else

A Day In The Life Of A Fisherwifie

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Year 6 Maths SATS Practice Paper

Monthly Micro September 2024 Longlist

Opposite Planes

WestWord Flash Prize Shortlist

Workshop Replay: Writing What We Don’t Know

Sam's Posthumous Poultry Potion

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Edition 6 - August 2024

On a Knife Edge

Dinnertime at Our House is Like a Circus

The Velvet Tigress

A Fathom of Trust

The Circus Came, and I was a Clown

Not That Kind of Circus

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Writing What We Don’t Know

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Flash Focus

Folktale Flash Contest

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Short Reads - July 2024

Short Story Spotlight Now Accepting Submissions

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How Perfectly Creativity Shapes Our World, You Said

Traces

The Layers of My Daughter

Until Now

Maria Yearns to Fill the Hollowness and Create a Brighter Look

Aphrodite's Pearls

A Cry From the Forest

Wind-up Happiness

She Wished For an Open Door

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The Last Loaf

Bisection

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First encounters in flash fictions

Feedback

New publishing opportunities at WestWord

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Washed Away

The Magic of Stones

The Day Grace became more 'Water'

Orange-Tinted Places

One Last Rain Dance

Keeping the Watch

Boys on Bikes

After the Storm

Desertion

But there never was a Big Bad Wolf, was there?

Llewellyn, Last King of Wales: his role in the divorce

August 2024 Contributors

Workshop Replay: Creating Narrative Drive in Flash Fiction

The Power of Homonyms

June 24 Monthly Micro Winners

The Archer's Daughter

In Another World, My Daughter Remembers My Birthday

Magic Hands

Falling Star

Entanglement

Alice Manages to Avoid the Rabbit-hole

Beyond the Home of Mystery

After a Hiatus of Fifty-Three Years, Marietta Finds Purpose in Her Life Once More

Shell Scrying

The Cockney Foundling

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Rules of Trespass

Please Tell the Moths I Love You

Participant's Notes and First Jottings at a Workshop on Writing Fiction

Lost Letters

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A Guide to Body Hair

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How to Become a Catastrophist in 6 Easy Steps

Life O'Level

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John Lennon Distracts You From Inviting a Girl to The School Disco

Sod Sweetness; Thorns Are My Thing

Don’t Take Away the Last Eleven Years, Four Months, and Nine Days From Me

The Collector

The Dead

What Rose did with her blue paste stone necklace (which cost her lover ÂŁ2 at a car boot sale) on the ferry to a new life

Visits To My Aunt

Serene Efficacy

The Perfumer’s Wife

At Last

Creating complex characters in short stories

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WestWord Prize 2024 - Micro Shortlist

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Death Row. Rikers Prison. 1950.

April 24 Monthly Micro Winners

When The Currents Go, We Will Follow

When and Why The River Says No

This is an Emergency Alert...

What Happened That Day on the Bridge as We Played Pooh Sticks

The Warren

Mike Never Ever Listened to Marion Yet Somehow Felt it was Appropriate to Speak for Her

A Girls’* Guide to Surviving a Rip-tide

An Oxford Professor’s Wife Makes a Pilgrimage to the Sistine Chapel a Week After her Best Friend’s Funeral

A Timeless Grudge

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Edition 5 - April 2024

How to Fight Fire When Everything Around You is Burning

The Trees that Grew in Different Times

Flowerman

Bee

Peace Girl

Start It Up

March 24 Monthly Micro Winners

Funny Bones

Things I've Learnt Since Becoming A Mother

The White Lie

The Small Deceits of Daughterhood are A Practised Art

DRAFT COMMS Stringer 09.03.24 (F-drive)

Thank You!

Then and Now - Hot and Cold

Things My Teenage Son Tells Me About What Happened That Day, on the Top Deck of the Number 22

I Took The Truth With Me

On Lying Down and Looking Up

2024 Hermit Crab Prize Shortlist

Using science in stories

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