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 […]
Category: Weekly Flash Fiction Contest
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 […]
Microcosms 47
Welcome to Microcosms 47. On this day in 1952, Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It ran there until Saturday, 23 March 1974 then immediately transferred to the larger St Martin’s Theatre, next door, where it reopened on Monday, 25 […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 46
Thank you to everyone for… er… Cohen (sorry again!) to the trouble of submitting an entry to Microcosms 46… 13 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 primarily to […]
Microcosms 46
Welcome, fictioneers, to Microcosms 46. Yours truly hosting once more: Today, we belatedly pay tribute to influential Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist, Leonard Cohen, who died earlier this month. Geoff (If you have an idea for a future contest – and would be happy […]
RESULTS – Microcosms 45
Thank you to all who… er… Putin (sorry!) an entry to Microcosms 45… a total of 14 this time. 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 […]
