After six months of hardly writing anything at all I took the first tentative steps of writing a flash story yesterday based on the word-of-the-day ‘Bombinate’ at dictionary.com. Entitled ‘The Humming’ you can read it over at my Short Short Stories blog.

Hopefully by undertaking a few stories inspired by word-of-the-day again I can start to get the feel for writing once more. Don’t expect too much too soon. This rustiness is going to take a while to rub down.

My short crime story The 13 Apostles was the winning entry in Red Bubble’s Crime Time 13 Bullets writing challenge.

My 350 word story, Tennis Courting, scooped 2nd place in the Red Bubble Twisted Tales ‘Racket” writing challenge.

My winning Twisted Tales story, The Fathers Sack Race, is now available to read on my blog A Short History of Writer Anti-Social Behaviour.

Launching January 2009, First Edition Magazine is a new monthly glossy solely dedicated to publishing works by new writers and authors.

They are looking for writers to submit their work for possible inclusion in their magazine. They are also offering cash prizes and awards, both monthly and annually. First Edition will publish complete novels and short stories as well as poems, plays and scripts.

Please check here for submission guidelines

My short 350 word flash fiction story Tennis Courting is now up to read at A Short History of Writer Anti-Social Behaviour.

Written for Red Bubble’s Twisted Tales ‘racket’ challenge it tells the story of a young boy discovering his mother’s infidelities.

Let me know what you think!

Today’s word-of-the-day at dictionary.com was ‘adduce’ which has prompted my story Just One Drink at Short Short Stories.

I have also added Einfühlung, a story previously published at Red Bubble’s Twisted Tales, on my other blog A Short History of Writer Anti-Social Behaviour.

I hope you enjoy and, as always, constructive comments are welcomed and appreciated.

Congratulations to fellow writer and blogger Tania Hershman for being the European Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Short Story Competition. 

Tania’s fantastic winning story ‘Straight Up’ can be listened to here.

Tania’s debut collection of short stories The White Road is available to buy (and, yes, I have just ordered it!).

To read more about Tania visit her website and blog.

In addition to my Short Short Stories blog, which features all my flash fiction inspired by word-of-the-day at dictionary.com, I have also launched a brand new blog that collates all my fiction either published elsewhere online, in print or that is no longer available to read anywhere.

Called A Short History of Writer Anti-Social Behaviour I am hoping it will become a useful one-stop resource for those of you who do not want to have to trawl the net or visit other websites to read my fiction.

I aim to upload the stories there as often as possible.

My new story Causing A Stink is now available to read at Short Short Stories. Inspired by word-of-the-day ‘frowzy’ it is about one of those commuting moments from hell when you find yourself sat next to the train crazy!