Friday Fictioneers Archives

Changing Guard in the hive – flash fiction story

16 April, 20192 August, 2013

Changing guard: What do the Queen Bee’s life guards talk about in the guardroom of the hive when it’s time to change shift?

16 April, 20194 July, 2013

From the top of the clock tower you can see far out across the greavel desert and watch the setting sun. What else to do at the end of the world?

14 February, 201927 June, 2013

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.

14 February, 201920 June, 2013

The successful novelist whose career started on guard duty outside the palace, observing the passers-by and inventing stories about them.

13 September, 201913 June, 2013

Mind over matter: Believe you can and you can walk through walls, leap through a piano – as long as you don’t lose concentration.

16 April, 20196 June, 2013

The camelopardophant isn’t the most cheerful of the heraldic beasts in the zoo. Flash Fiction for the Friday Fictioneers.

16 April, 201930 May, 2013

A Pride of Princesses. Penny the tomboy gets the boys to join her and dress as princesses. A piece of flash-fiction for the Friday Fictioneers group.

13 May, 201922 May, 2013

An angry woman on the telephone – inspired by Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone”. You wouldn’t want to get a call like this.

16 April, 201917 May, 2013

A hot, summer’s day and the boy is climbing the hill through head-high grass, but then he awakens something, and it’s not snakes from hibernation.

16 April, 20199 May, 2013

Beware the spirits – the genies in the bottle. They are not what you think and they won’t delight you as you hope. Listen to the old bartender!