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• Shorter than Short 5 years ago Exciting news! My flash fiction piece, the one long-listed for National Flash Fiction Day, has been published in Flash Frontier. Check it out here, for free! Flash fiction, for those unfamiliar, is a super-short flavour of short story. They’re almost like poems and, truth be told, this particular...
• Slow but steady... there's no race? 5 years ago I got good news today. A short story I wrote will be published. A month-or-so ago, I had some other news: my flash-fiction story ‘Blue Heron. Spirit Level.’ was long-listed for National Flash Fiction Day. The ratio of good to bad news is improving. As one might hope, having been on the writing...
• a vision or near enough 6 years ago It’s that time of year. We look to the year ahead and back on what’s past and make unrealistic evaluations and promises to ourselves. I’m not keen on hard-line resolutions, because things seldom go as planned, but I’m thinking about my hopes for 2018. My vision, if you will. I have a...
• On bagging teachers 7 years ago I work as a relief teacher. At seven in the morning, or if I’m lucky, at eight in the evening, the night before, I get a call from a surprisingly calm sounding woman who coordinates the relief teachers at one of the high schools nearby, and she asks me if I’m available to teach, and […]
• A Little Distance 7 years ago Well, it happened again. Insert sensationalist news headline here. Earthquakes are a-quaking. But not right under me. Not here. Not this time. We felt the biggie, sat up in bed, said ‘Is that a… oh shiiiit,” and zig-zagged to the doorway, but all the hundreds of after shocks, all hours, night...

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