Welcome to Microcosms 54. Fridays sure do come round quickly… This week it’s Friday, 13th January, so the contest is based on a variety of people, all of whom died on the 13th day of January. The film ‘Tombstone’ (1993) concerns Lawman Wyatt Earp (died 1929) […]
Category: Weekly Flash Fiction Contest
RESULTS – Microcosms 53
Thank you to everyone who made a resolution to submit a story to Microcosms 53. We’ve had 13 entries so far this year – not bad after the holiday hiatus. Nice to see one or two old faces returning to the fray. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word […]
Microcosms 53
Another Friday, another year… Welcome to Microcosms 53, the first post of 2017. Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a great festive period. To extend my break, Stephen Shirres kindly volunteered to be guest host this week. Over to you, Stephen: Happy New […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 50
Thank you to everyone who beat the clock to submit a story to Microcosms 50. We had 12 entries this week – other priorities, maybe? Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers and friends. Don’t forget that Microcosms exists primarily […]
Microcosms 50
Another Friday… Welcome to Microcosms 50, the final competitive post of 2016. It’s Friday, 16 December, so this week’s contest is based on a film you will all be familiar with – the 2002 Hindi action spy thriller… 16 December… No? Oh well, that’s why they […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 49
Thank you to everyone who sent in a VSS (Very Special Submission) in Microcosms 49. We had another fine turn-out – 18 entries in all. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers and friends. Don’t forget that Microcosms exists […]
Microcosms 49
Hi, guys! Welcome to Microcosms 49. It’s the early hours of Friday here in the UK: the time I habitually start scrabbling around for an idea for a contest. Nope… can’t think of anything new. So, I’ll have to fall back on Plan B: plagiarism a tribute […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 48
Thank you to everyone who applied quill to parchment in Microcosms 48. We had another great turn-out – 21 entries in all, including one from the judge who, for once, was not reading blind. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest […]
Microcosms 48
Welcome to Microcosms 48, flashionistas. (Thanks to Bill Engleson for this wonderful term.) On this day in 1867, at Tremont Temple in Boston, Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. This provides a tenuous link to the great man of letters. […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 47
Thank you to everyone who took the time to invent a better mousetrap in Microcosms 47; in an ideal universe, the world would be making a beaten path to the door of each and every one of you for more fine flash fiction. We had an extremely respectable […]
