Soul Theft by Remi Skytterstad They built internment camps in red, white and blue: and called them schools. Filled them with mouthless faces, stripped of all colours of home: and called us pupils. There, the rattan cane clapped over…
Backstory: Five Questions with George L. Hickman
Backstory: Five Questions with George L. Hickman Author of Invisible What inspired you to write ‘Invisible’? One of my main interests as a writer is re-writing queer and underrepresented characters back into history. Trans people, in particular, have existed since…
Invisible
Invisible by George L. Hickman We had been whipping the whiskey wash for three hours now, my socks long soaked from the Scottish rain. Four of us boys stood around a bubbling vat of yeast and barley, piercing its thick…
Backstory: Five Questions with Ryle Lagonsin
Backstory: Five Questions with Ryle Lagonsin Author of The Lost, Independencia What inspired you to write ‘The Lost, Independencia’? Usually, though not by intention, my writing is influenced by the places that I am fond of. The fact that I…
The Lost, Independencia
The Lost, Independencia by Ryle Lagonsin From my window overlooking the mountains, I watch a line of soldiers climbing up the footpath, small as ants in the green totality of the range. They are all the same, only multiplied in…
BackStory: Five Questions with Cathy Lennon
BackStory: Five Questions with Cathy Lennon Author of A Note on the Understanding of Fossils What inspired you to write ‘A Note on the Understanding of Fossils’? I felt great sympathy for Mary Buckland who clearly enjoyed learning about things…
A Note on the Understanding of Fossils
A Note on the Understanding of Fossils by Cathy Lennon She is leaking. Milk dribbles from her breasts and blooms across her nightdress as she works. She has an ear cocked for the baby and his fearsome greed but her…
Timeline: FlashBack’s Sixth Season
Timeline: FlashBack’s Sixth Season We’d like to celebrate our final season of our second year with this tremendous collection of flash and prose poetry. We’ll be back in January with new work and our next submission window which stretches from…
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson Author of Compost What inspired you to write ‘Compost’? I was on a prose fiction Diploma course at UEA at the time. My old Norfolk garden had apple trees in fruit, all but one…
Compost
Compost by John Nicholson The Berlin Wall is down and my pension is in real marks. The notes feel good between finger and thumb, substantial. My shovel feels good too, balanced horizontally in my left hand, cold wood and colder…