Welcome back to Microcosms, your weekly stop for flash fiction fun. If you’re experiencing troubled water at the moment, take heart – this week’s theme is… No, we’re not resorting to plundering the works of Simon and Garfunkel – not this time, any way! We’re giving the […]
Category: Weekly Flash Fiction Contest
RESULTS – Microcosms 41
Thank you to all who squeezed out a story in Microcosms 41. (Scraping the barrel now for a punning reference to the contest…) Back to a reasonable number of entries this time. Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest […]
Microcosms 41
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! OK, I admit it: in my student days, I was a big Emerson, Lake and Palmer fan. But this is Microcosms 41, and Sal Page is guest host. I wonder what she could possibly come up […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 40
Thank you to all who, in Microcosms 40, submitted their take on one of the favourite/favorite lines from the previous 13 weeks of the contest. A huge leap in the number of entries this week; does this mean that people prefer the freedom allowed by not […]
Microcosms 40
Welcome to Q4 in the first year of Microcosms – pause for a ripple of applause – and round #40. This week’s contest was inspired by a throw-away line from Steve Lodge when he was judging round #36: “What a story it would make if we put all […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 39
Thank you to all who submitted their RTA obituaries in Microcosms 39… Actually, there weren’t any of these, but it would have been an original take on the prompt! Please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among your followers […]
Microcosms 39
Welcome to Microcosms #39, and another macabre flash fiction contest. This week, we mark the end of the third quarter of Microcosms’ first year – and also the anniversary of the death of James Dean, who died in a car crash on this day in 1955, aged just […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 38
Thank you to all who joined in the birthday celebrations in Microcosms 38 – a goodly number this week… 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 to provide a […]
Microcosms 38
Howdie, pardners! Welcome to Microcosms #38. This week, we are making a slight break from our usual format to celebrate Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen – born in the USA 67 years ago today. And ‘Born in the USA’ (1984) became his most commercially-successful album and one of the highest-selling records ever, […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 37
Thank you to all who returned to post their entry in Microcosms 37. For reasons unknown, the number of submissions fell to single figures this week… You know what to do: please keep returning to Microcosms, and retweet / spread the word about this contest among […]
