A Man Walks into a Bank – Flash Fiction
A man walks into a bank wearing nothing but a smile … This was the FlashNano prompt for 23rd November, and this short story was my response.
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A man walks into a bank wearing nothing but a smile … This was the FlashNano prompt for 23rd November, and this short story was my response.
Skiing downhill was never my strong suit – let’s face it, skiing was never my strong suit – but once upon a time I used to ski every winter.
After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.
An Autumn Haunted Cinquain is a poem of horror and fog – and about words and wordplay on Twitter. A poem from 10 years ago, revisited.
Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.
Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.
Guilty secret is a piece of flash fiction originally published last year in Far Flung, the last Writers Abroad anthology.
Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)
A writing prompt on the website of my writers’ group has me counterfeiting a letter my father might have written to me.
Jana Kippo is the protagonist of a recent successful trilogy of novels in Swedish by Karin Smirnoff. I ponder, and try my hand at translating.