I Can Show You the World and other stories

By National Flash-Fiction Day

A collection of award-winning flash-fictions gathered together from the competitions run to celebrate National Flash-Fiction Day 2012.

25 wonderful stories from Tania Hershman, J Adamthwaite, Angela Readman, Martha Williams, David Hartley, Chris Bridges and more.

We have crime, we have fairy stories, we have happy, sad, emotional and funny. What more could you want?

• Language: English
• Publisher: National Flash-Fiction Day
• Release date: May 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476321837

National Flash-Fiction Day

The first National Flash-Fiction Day was held in the UK in May 2012. The next is planned for June 2013. It is a day to celebrate the tiniest forms of stories in all their glory.

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I Can Show You the World

and other stories

a collection of award winning flash-fictions

from National Flash-Fiction Day 2012

www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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First Published 2012 by National Flash-Fiction Day

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National Flash-Fiction Day

www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

All work ©2012 the authors,

The moral right of the authors has been asserted

Cover design by Calum Kerr.

Typeset by Calum Kerr.

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Dedicated to all those who entered the competitions but who didn’t win this time.

We’ve reserved your place for next year.

Contents

Foreword by Calum Kerr

4’33" Audio Competition

The Friend

J Adamthwaite

The Nose Picker: Public Enemy Number One

Thomas McColl

Neighborly Relations

Claire Noble

1000words – Picture Prompt E-Journal

The Flower Girl

J Adamthwaite

A Bit of Sparkle

Susan Carey

Zero Point Zero Zero Zero Five

Eva Holland

Bad Language Competition

The Cousins’ House

Kaarina Hollo

Blackpool Odyssey

Martin Lindley

Kitchen Sink Drama

Lynn Myint Maung

FlashBang Crime Competition

Mirror on a Stick

Frances Gapper

Search History

Iain Rowan

The Magician

Nettie Thomson

Flash Fiction South West Anthology

Kissing Frankenstein

Tania Hershman

A Good Dying

Alastair Keen

Ripening

Martha Williams

Flash Fiction World Competition

Every Picture Tells a Story

Francesca Burgess

Ever Has It Been That Love Knows Not Its Own Depth Until The Hour of Separation.

Lorna Louise Hutchison

The Day The Music Died

Iain Pattison

Lancashire Writing Hub’s Competition

The Haunter

David Hartley

Alone

Debbie Walsh

Once Upon A Time – Fairytale Competition

I Can Show You the World

McKenzie Barham

Pink Bells

Oliver Barton

A Mermaid in Texas

Angela Readman

The Word Counts Competition

The Sofa

Barbara Weeks

Writing East Midlands Competition

Good Advice

Chris Bridges

Acknowledgements

Foreword

As I write this it is 8:48 on Tuesday 15th May 2012.

How interesting, you say.

It certainly is, I respond.

So why are we having this riveting discussion?

Well, we’re having it because just seven months ago I had the idea that what flash-fiction writers needed even more than money, food and shelter, was a day to call their own. Many of them agreed and now, as I write this, we are just over 15 hours away from that day.

Yes, 16th May 2012 will be, is, and has been (depending on when you’re reading this) the first National Flash-Fiction Day in the UK (and anywhere, for that matter). Many events will be taking place all over the country and,