Category Archives: Flash Fiction

The Impossible Gift

Posted on December 25, 2019 by colonialist

Merry Christmas Everyone! (Sorry, I don’t DO Happy Holidays.) A story written previously that I thought was worthy of a repeat for this Christmas. It has now mysteriously vanished from the original blog, Facebook, and Word, perhaps due to the … Continue reading →

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100-Word Flash(ing) Fiction

Posted on August 30, 2019 by colonialist

  I have had a yearning, recently, to keep my hand in on Flash Fiction and have been looking for a home for such pieces. After failing to find one quite suitable, I thought of doing it anyway. The first … Continue reading →

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The Knight’s Tail

Posted on January 10, 2019 by colonialist

                          In memory of a loyal knight Of the house of Yawk Who got an almighty fright One night when he dropped his fawk And under the table, … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Flash Fiction, Humour, Nonsense verse, photo challenge, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged , | 24 Comments

AGENDA for trilingual six-word short story.

Posted on November 7, 2018 by colonialist

  De agenda van katten: wereld verovering. Agenda van katte is wêreld verowering Cats’ agenda: to conquer the world. (Doldriest zeswoordverhaal uitdaging — a challenge to use a key word to write a six-word short story, found on her Dutch … Continue reading →

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TWADDLE in Really Awful Rhyme

Posted on May 19, 2018 by colonialist

    I used the 98-word Twaddle challenge to start writing anything, stop when I thought I’d got to about 98, and then do a little fine-tuning, pruning and swooning:-       So twaddle we send our writing efforts … Continue reading →

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The Winning Card

Posted on February 15, 2018 by colonialist

In days of yore, a Valentine Was, incognito, sent. And this was then all good and fine, But who knew what it meant? When girl who would receive a stack, With face like back of bus, Sincerity, perhaps, they’d lack … Continue reading →

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Green Female and Blackmail

Posted on March 19, 2017 by colonialist

Wordle 291 Not easy to make any sense out of using all the words in the given order, while also creating a rhyme, this week!   In green ball gown she rings the bell; After admittance, a penguin-suited Waiter will lead her … Continue reading →

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In Short

Posted on November 1, 2016 by colonialist

Condensing any given content is valuable to all writers, for preparing blurbs or a précis, or simply for chopping out unnecessary verbiage. Consider the already short form used for my latest Wordle attempt. It seemed to have come out pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Cats, Challenge, Flash Fiction, pets, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordle, Writing | Tagged , , , | 14 Comments

A Birdle Wordle

Posted on April 19, 2016 by colonialist

Wordle in order, rhyming, and which tells a story as briefly as possible:   With a rattle came the rest of egg in sight – When I’m old I won’t forget that shell so light – A stretch into the hole, where the feathers … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Colonialist, Flash Fiction, NaPoWriMo, Poems, Rhyme, Wordle | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

A Disillusioned Scot’s Wordle

Posted on April 10, 2016 by colonialist

These Wordles, with extra challenges added, are addictive. I have used the given words in order, and added a mere twenty (twenty-four if you count the title) to give a rhyming story. I hope it is not now regarded as … Continue reading →

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