2019 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition: Moon Third Place Moon Burial by Johanna Robinson Is it lonely up there, high as heaven? Did you once, alive, imagine looking down on us all, pinching the Earth between finger and thumb, as though…
Moon Rabbit Over Honshu
2019 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition: Moon Highly Commended Moon Rabbit Over Honshu by Caroline Greene “There, now you can see it,” said Kazu’s grandmother guiding his pointing finger around the shadow-shape of a rabbit on the bright, white moon. The…
Three Minutes Before St Mary’s Chimed The Quarter Hour
2019 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition: Moon Highly Commended Three Minutes Before St Mary’s Chimed The Quarter Hour by Marissa Hoffmann Father blamed the moon’s blink—three days past apogee—for the westerly raging-bull-wind that butted their Dundee train. Bella had been following…
Summer 2019 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition Shortlist
We are delighted to announce our shortlist for the Summer 2019 FlashBack Fiction Microfiction Competition! Here they are, in alphabetical order: Bedlam Gene Cernan Boards the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Lunatics Moon Burial Moon Rabbit Over Honshu Nightfall, Hiroshima, August…
BackStory: Three Questions with Jude Higgins
BackStory: Three Questions with Jude Higgins Author of Wolf Moon What inspired you to write ‘Wolf Moon’? I’ve been sharing prompt words daily with John Wheway for a while and the word ‘wolf’ plus a few other words in this…
Wolf Moon
Wolf Moon by Jude Higgins Peter is back from the Wyre at full moon with wolf blood on his hands. He says the wolves are denning and he caught more cubs today, their feet sticky in the pitch he laid…
BackStory: Five Questions with Jan Kaneen
BackStory: Five Questions with Jan Kaneen Author of The Arnolfini Funeral What inspired you to write ‘The Arnolfini Funeral’? I watched a documentary series on BBC 4 called A Stitch in Time, where fashion historian Amber Butchart explores historical figures…
The Arnolfini Funeral
The Arnolfini Funeral by Jan Kaneen Midsummer heat carries his musk up the screw of the staircase, so I know he is coming. I curtsy low averting my eyes, but I need no eyes to see him: that left wrist…
BackStory: Four Questions with Ali McGrane
BackStory: Four Questions with Ali McGrane Author of Tar i leith What inspired you to write ‘Tar i leith’? It was inspired by knowing someone in my extended family who experienced this, was brought up on the west coast of…
Tar i leith
Tar i leith by Ali McGrane She never went back, not really, only once for a holiday when the children were young. But there’s this. She stands in her kitchen, one hand on the door frame, one foot over the…