Time’s arrow thuds home – flash fiction
Time’s Arrow travels in a straight line before it thuds home, doesn’t it? But in a piece of flash fiction perhaps it doesn’t have to.
Month: June 2013
Here be more Dragons – VRS revisited
Here be Dragons: Why I’m unlikely ever to be able to use voice recognition software to write fiction, though I use it for many other purposes.
The successful novelist – flash fiction story
The successful novelist whose career started on guard duty outside the palace, observing the passers-by and inventing stories about them.
Visions, revisions, toast and tea At the Quill
Visions and revisions: this article describes some of the prevarication and development that went into the separate At the Quill website, now reunited here. There’s also a nod to the taking of a toast and tea.
Mind over matter – a flash fiction story
Mind over matter: Believe you can and you can walk through walls, leap through a piano – as long as you don’t lose concentration.
Iain Banks
The author Iain Banks (aka Iain M Banks) died, age 59, on Sunday 9th June 2013. A witty, intelligent and very able writer of “mainstream” and SF, as well as a defender of humanism, in all senses of that word.
Back to Pompeii – a book review
Book review of Back to Pompeii by Kim M Kimselius (trans. Jennifer Lee) – a book I would happily put in the hands of any 10-to-13-year-old.
The Camelopardophant in the Zoo of Heraldic Beasts
The camelopardophant isn’t the most cheerful of the heraldic beasts in the zoo. Flash Fiction for the Friday Fictioneers.
Atropos and Mnemosyne – a poem about memory loss
His same question, my same answer, again and again. Atropos and Mnemosyne, a poem.