Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "flash-fiction"

I've started posting the odd bit of flash fiction on my website. I find the discipline of short pieces is good for my writing. Here's an example.
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A two-minute read. Enjoy.
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I've been in the flash-fiction salt mines again. Actually I'm not sure if you'd call it flash fiction or just short short stories. It doesn't matter. This one's a 2-3 minute read and it's a sort of love story; there is life after divorce.

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Love (not) in a very cold climate.
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I'm now writing and posting a lot of flash fiction - generally stories of between 900 and 2,400 words. They've been a hit with readers - in fact they've really boosted the blog. I think busy people like to have something short they can read on their phone on the subway/tube, in the bank queue, waiting for their takeout order etc.

Here's the latest one. Meet Ben the Whovian detectorist... and Louise.

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The town's Member of Parliament is upset. The Faculty of Art and Design, he says, has become a hotbed of perversion and wokeness.
Or has it?
Subversion with style awaits him...
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