Flash Fiction: ‘No Plans’ by Paul Jenkins

Highly Commended in the winter TSS Flash Fiction 400 competition 2018   Tomorrow my mother dies. Around half ten in the morning she will slip as s...

Flash Fiction: Face Full of Quills, by Jasmine Templet

Highly Commended in the winter 2019 TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition   I have always eaten mice. My earliest memory is of swallowing one whole while...

Flash Fiction: Catechism, by Adam Lock

2nd place in the winter 2019 TSS Flash 400 Competition Why are you running? My dad was fifty-seven when he died of a heart attack.   Why is the c...

Flash Fiction: The Grieving Gallery Attendant is Going to Quit, by Anika Carpenter

1st Place in the TSS Flash 400 competition (winter) The gallery’s polished concrete floor gives off an acrid, almost rotten smell; a lecherous odour that force...

Flash Fiction: ‘Boy in a Bearskin’ by Joanna Campbell

1st Place in the TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition (autumn 2018) My brothers and I line up outside the house, eldest first, as once we did for ‘Santa’. The w...

Flash Fiction: ‘Sweet William’ by Alicia Bakewell

2nd Place in the TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition (autumn, 2018) In letters, they call you the late, as if you’ve failed to turn up for an appointment on ti...

Flash Fiction: ‘Learning to Speak Dolphin’ by Angela Readman

3rd Place in the TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition (autumn, 2018) You can’t blow up a balloon without picturing the dolphins you worked with one summer. A dr...

Flash Fiction: ‘When Last We Spoke’ by Douglas Jensen

Highly Commended in the TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition (autumn, 2018) One Sunday my father gathered the family together and told us it was necessary to em...