How to Sit: Banishing the static in Flash Fiction, by Tommy Dean TSS Publishing·March 1, 2024Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you want to write a flash where a character sits and ruminates, then there...
Let Them Float: Illness and Speculative Writing, by Katy Wimhurst TSS Publishing·January 19, 2024Reading Time: 7 minutesInhabiting the body can be a strange, unsettling thing, especially when it goes wrong. But...
Hemingway and Parataxis, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·January 23, 2020Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen the 22-year-old Ernest Hemingway relocated to Paris in 1921 some of the century’s greatest...
Crafting Short Stories: A Good Opening Sentence, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·September 20, 2019Reading Time: 6 minutesEssay by Peter Jordan The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet so...
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019 TSS Publishing·September 1, 2019Reading Time: 2 minutesTSS Publishing is proud to present our list of the very best fifty British and...
Doris Lessing: Behind the Door of Room Nineteen, by Kate Jones TSS Publishing·July 30, 2019Reading Time: 7 minutesI came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her seminal...
See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith TSS Publishing·July 28, 2019Reading Time: 7 minutesPeter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to the...
Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold TSS Publishing·July 26, 2019Reading Time: 4 minutesThree years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New Zealand...
Flash Fiction: Inciting Incidents and Why A Dog Tilts Its Head, by Adam Lock TSS Publishing·July 15, 2019Reading Time: 6 minutesBelieve it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my sister’s...