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Leonardo’s Park, Chateau Clos Lucé, Amboise. – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 21h

FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 22h

Leonardo’s Park, Chateau Clos Lucé, Amboise.
By Roger Vickery

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She positions me at the business end of a multi-barrel flesh-mulching scattergun you dreamed up for the Medici mob --you did your share of dirty work— and shoots me absently with her purple quilted iP...

Things To See in Bognor – Free Flash Fiction

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Things To See in Bognor
by Paul McDonald
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Bognor Regis Esplanade, Bognor Gaming Lounge, Bognor Beachside Brew Bar. When she lingers at Bognor Gelatos he tugs her by as if she's a toddler. They’re on a diet because his blood pressure and cho...

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Things To See in Bognor
by Paul McDonald
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Bognor Regis Esplanade, Bognor Gaming Lounge, Bognor Beachside Brew Bar. When she lingers at Bognor Gelatos he tugs her by as if she's a toddler. They’re on a diet because his blood pressure and cho...

Things To See in Bognor – Free Flash Fiction

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Things To See in Bognor
by Paul McDonald
www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Paul-...

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Bognor Regis Esplanade, Bognor Gaming Lounge, Bognor Beachside Brew Bar. When she lingers at Bognor Gelatos he tugs her by as if she's a toddler. They’re on a diet because his blood pressure and cho...

A Girl’s Best Friend – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 6d

Three weeks to go!

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13d

FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 6d

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A Girl’s Best Friend
by Angela Pickering

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Marilyn Monroe is my roommate. She peeks around the corner down the hall and I pretend I don’t see. She spends her time whispering happy birthday in the middle of the night. When I get closer, it'...

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A Girl’s Best Friend
by Angela Pickering

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Marilyn Monroe is my roommate. She peeks around the corner down the hall and I pretend I don’t see. She spends her time whispering happy birthday in the middle of the night. When I get closer, it'...

Competition Ten Winning Flash Fiction: Do Everything Your Mama Said Not To – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 7d

FFF15072022
As chosen by Judge Charles Prelle

Competition Ten Winning Flash Fiction:

Do Everything Your Mama Said Not To
by JP Relph
linktr.ee/JPRelph

@therelphian.bsky.social

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“Don’t slouch, sit nice” Sprawl over the hot bonnet of his American muscle. Lounge across the back seats of the Greyhound to anywhere, his hand travelling, thighs shakier than your resolve. Flop int...

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 8d

A Girl’s Best Friend
by Angela Pickering

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction

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Marilyn Monroe is my roommate. She peeks around the corner down the hall and I pretend I don’t see. She spends her time whispering happy birthday in the middle of the night. When I get closer, it'...

Competition Nine Winning Flash Fiction: White Noise – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 8d

FFF13052022

As chosen by Judge Michelle Christophorou

FFF Competition Nine Winning Flash Fiction:

White Noise
by Charles Prelle
@charlesprelle.bsky.social

www.cprellewriter.wordpress.com

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I watch as you linger at the western edge of the field. You raise a hand. Pop. Then blackness. It’s the sound we hear in the womb. It’s a rush of blood, the beating of a heart, a filling and compres...

Competition Eight Winning Flash Fiction: My child speaks with the voice of a swallow – Free Flash Fiction

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 9d

FFF19032022

As chosen by Judge Martha Lane

FFF Competition Eight Winning Flash Fiction:

My child speaks with the voice of a swallow
by Michelle Christophorou
@mchristophorou.bsky.social

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High-pitched, joyful, intermittent. Sometimes no one understands his cries but me. Sometimes I only pretend to understand. My parents tell me he’ll grow out of it. My friends say they haven’t notice...

Competition Seven Winning Flash Fiction: The Grievers’ Horror Film Club – Free Flash Fiction

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JP Relph - Novella OUT NOW! @therelphian.bsky.social · 10d

Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝
If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌

Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 10d

We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝
Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for
@WildlifeTrusts
and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 12d

FFF20092021

As chosen by Judge Rachel O'Cleary

FFF Competition Seven Winning Flash Fiction:

The Grievers’ Horror Film Club
by Martha Lane
@marthawrites.bsky.social

marthalane.co.uk

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Before the Grievers' Horror Film Club, the sound of the house settling was enough to scare me. I'd lose whole nights to fear of home invasions, alien landings, burst pipes, fires and axe murderers. Al...

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13d

FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

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The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13d

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The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly
by Shreyasi Majumdar

majumdarshreyasi.wixsite.com

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At 35,000 feet, the world is expansive, surreal. The orange-tinted clouds are a giant carpet, a powder blanket on which the airplane glides effortlessly. But more than the ethereal vastness, the Kākāp...

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13d

FFF Competition Thirty
flash fiction 100/300 Words
1 W £165.00
2 HC £77.00
3 SL £66.00
Judge: Nish X. Hegde
@nishxhegde.bsky.social

£4.40 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe
£2.95 fee per entry via BACS -
ends 23/10/25

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Competition Six Winning Story: Fight, Flight, and Freeze – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 13d

FFF10112021
As chosen by Judge Martha Lane

FFF Competition Six Winning Story:

Fight, Flight, and Freeze
by
Rachel O'Cleary
rachelocleary.wordpress.com

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Fight It's not as simple as his blood under your fingernails. It's more like watching your fingernails splinter from trying to keep a grasp on each new thing as he pulls it away. You make lists in y...

The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly – Free Flash Fiction

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The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly
by Shreyasi Majumdar

majumdarshreyasi.wixsite.com

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At 35,000 feet, the world is expansive, surreal. The orange-tinted clouds are a giant carpet, a powder blanket on which the airplane glides effortlessly. But more than the ethereal vastness, the Kākāp...

Competition Five Winning Flash Fiction: 2He – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 14d

FFF20092021
As chosen by Judge Rosaleen Lynch

FFF Competition Five Winning Flash Fiction:

2He
by Martha Lane
@marthawrites.bsky.social
marthalane.co.uk

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2He You tell him his dad lives in a balloon now. Makes sense to him, all three of you went into that hospital but only you, he and the balloon came out. Foil stretched taut, shining, bouncing happil...

The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly – Free Flash Fiction

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 14d

The Kākāpō doesn’t Fly
by Shreyasi Majumdar

majumdarshreyasi.wixsite.com

#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction

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At 35,000 feet, the world is expansive, surreal. The orange-tinted clouds are a giant carpet, a powder blanket on which the airplane glides effortlessly. But more than the ethereal vastness, the Kākāp...

Competition Four Winning Story: Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 15d

FFF16072021
As Chosen by Judge Abi Hennig

FFF Competition Four Winning Flash Fiction:

Goldilocks and My Imaginary Family
by Rosaleen Lynch

@rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

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I buried my imaginary family and Goldilocks under the porch, like in the movies, but easier using an imaginary shovel to dig an imaginary hole that their imaginary bodies would fit in. I couldn't brin...

Where Does the Time Go – Free Flash Fiction

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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 15d

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Where Does the Time Go
by Derek Jennings
@derekjennings17 - X

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Grandma was mashing avocados in the kitchen for lunch whilst Isla played in the lounge, supervised by Grandad, precious days that always provided a fun distraction from the constant worry about John’s...

Competition Three Winning Flash Fiction: The last wolf in Brighton’s in the prize booth on the pier – Free Flash Fiction

Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 16d

FFF19052021

Chosen by Judge Hazel Turner

FFFCompetition Three Winning Story:

The last wolf in Brighton’s in the prize booth on the pier
by Abi Hennig
@abihennig.bsky.social

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Sometimes, he stares at the picture ticky-tacked to the overhead cupboard door for a solid ten minutes. Lone wolf he calls it. Like me, he says. He rubs at a spot on the counter, invisible to th...