20 July 2019 marks fifty years since the Apollo Moon Landing. To celebrate that small step and giant leap, FlashBack is holding our second historical microfiction competition. We are looking for flash fiction, prose poetry and hybrid work of up…
BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Polders
BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Polders Author of Inner Thief What inspired you to write “Inner Thief”? My grandmother, who is over one hundred years old, lived through the Second World War and the German occupation as a young bride…
Inner Thief
Inner Thief by Claire Polders Her husband folds his hand over hers, the one wielding the knife, and she stops slicing the breakfast bread. He says they have enough. Their eyes meet. The word “enough” sounds foreign to her, as…
BackStory: Five Questions with Fiona J. Mackintosh
BackStory: Five Questions with Fiona J. Mackintosh Author of Postbellum What inspired you to write this piece? That’s a long story. I have spent many years researching the lives of an Anglo-Tahitian royal family in the 19th and early 20th…