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Friday flash fiction – Black Spot
Ness checked her phone as she and the ambulance were spotlighted by the high beam lamps of the returning police car. This road received so little signal it was a wonder her emergency call had gone though. The ambulance driver, … Continue reading
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Friday flash fiction – Mise-en-scène
Most ghosts cannot be captured on film; there are exceptions. I refer, of course, to the posthumous career of the late Delilah Hargreaves. Hargreaves first came to notice as the scene-stealing maidservant Irma Grace in Songs of Revolution (1954), a … Continue reading
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Friday Flash Fiction – The Turn of the Tide
The moon’s silver ripples and shatters into a thousand glints in the wake of the lone fisherman crossing the mud flat. Its dim dappling is the only light in the long dark before the dawn. The muddy shallows settle, erasing … Continue reading
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Friday Flash Fiction – The Mirror Witch and the Wormwood Miranda
Kimiko Shimizu’s birthday sleepover was the best because we got to stay up all night and be space pirates. I don’t mean playing pretend. That’s for little kids. I mean we summoned the mirror witch who took us to the … Continue reading
Friday flash fiction – October Music
October Music Every Halloween, Bernie Flinders plays music to quiet her ghosts. When the evening’s stream of costumed children dissipates to a trickle, she snuffs the candles in the jack-o’-lanterns, sets the remnant candy in a bowl on the porch, … Continue reading
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