Category: Weekly Flash Fiction Contest

Microcosms 119

Greetings, my flash fictioneering friends, and welcome to Microcosms 119. This week’s contest is based on anniversaries occurring today (20-APR). 270 years: birth of Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and multi-instrumentalist 210 years: birth of Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France who died […]

RESULTS – Microcosms 118

Thanks to all who submitted to Microcosms 118. We had 19 entries this time. Welcome to first-time entrants, Sophie Watson and ThatLanguageGuy. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers and friends. Don’t forget that Microcosms […]

Microcosms 118

Hello once again, flashionistas, and welcome to Microcosms 118. In MC 110, I mentioned my resolution to address my addiction to tsundoku — the Japanese term for the habit of buying books, then piling them up unread — by reading 50 books in 2018. In the first quarter of the year […]

RESULTS – Microcosms 117

Thanks to all who submitted to Microcosms 117. We had a very pleasing turnout of 22 entries this time. Welcome to first-time entrants Beckham Lawre, Pauline Emmylou Florsch, Rae Morgan and Stephanie Cornelius. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers and […]

RESULTS – Microcosms 116

Thanks to all who submitted to Microcosms116. We had 15 entries this time. Welcome to first-time entrant, Rey Alicea. Before we get down to business, Damhnait Monaghan got in touch with us to say that her story “I Was a Teenage River Nymph” — Judge’s […]

Microcosms 116

Greetings, my flash fictioneering friends, and welcome to Microcosms 116. 30-MAR saw the birth in 1905 of England’s longest-serving hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. Some of his more famous ‘clients’ include: William Joyce — “Lord Haw Haw” (1946) Timothy Evans (1950) Derek Bentley (1953) John Christie (1953) […]

RESULTS – Microcosms 115

Thanks to all who submitted to Microcosms 115. We had 16 minuscule masterpieces this time — plus yet another entry on the wrong day! If you are considering entering Microcosms for the first time, please, please, please read the rules – especially that it is a 24-HOUR […]

RESULTS – Microcosms 114

Thanks to all you lovely people who took the time to submit to Microcosms 114. We had a select 14 entries this time. Welcome to first-timer, Roger Shipp. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers and friends. […]