BackStory: Five Questions with Rob Walton Author of Three Hundred and Eighty Five Yards What inspired you to write “Three Hundred and Eighty Five Yards”? I’ve always been interested in the Olympics, and especially the Marathon. As a child, my…
Three Hundred and Eighty Five Yards
Three Hundred and Eighty Five Yards by Rob Walton Some say Conan Doyle is only here because the organisers offered him a good seat to watch the athletics. Others say he is here on behalf of the Daily Mail. I…
BackStory: Five Questions with Nick Lord Lancaster
BackStory: Five Questions with Nick Lord Lancaster Author of On The Ethics of Book Burning What inspired you to write ‘On the Ethics of Book Burning’? The piece actually describes a true story. I bumped into it one day while…
On The Ethics of Book Burning
On The Ethics of Book Burning by Nick Lord Lancaster These are the facts of the matter. The warehouse fire was entirely accidental. I don’t know the cause of it; I’m not privy to that level of information. My role…
BackStory: Five Questions with Charmaine Wilkerson
BackStory: Five Questions with Charmaine Wilkerson Author of Balm What inspired you to write ‘Balm’? I’ve been working on a novel about a woman with a hidden past and I find that the characters from this longer work have been…
Balm
Balm by Charmaine Wilkerson “Tiger Balm!” she screeched, right there in Aisle Nine. “Ti-ger Ba-alm!” “What? What?” her son said, with that down-curved oh-shape that his mouth took on when he was annoyed. He wouldn’t understand. She couldn’t expect him…
BackStory: Five Questions with TM Upchurch
BackStory: Five Questions with TM Upchurch Author of There Will Be No Lace What inspired you to write this piece? I was researching 20th century adoption, reading about a “mother and baby home” that operated from the late 18th century…
There Will Be No Lace
There Will Be No Lace by TM Upchurch Your lips bubble and slurp, a sweet shik-shik suckle of air as I curl around you, smelling your butterscotch breath. You pause to gape a greedy smile, swallowing the night; you are…
Timeline: FlashBack’s First Season
Timeline: FlashBack’s First Season We launched FlashBack Fiction on the 29th of January 2018. Since then, we’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the number and quality of submissions we’ve had the honour to read, as well as the support and enthusiasm…
Blood Orange
Blood Orange by Sherri Turner I spat out my mouthful, the remainder of the segment glistening red-flecked between my fingers. Ruby juice splashed on the stone floor. “It’s got blood in it,” I said. “It’s not real blood,” my mother…