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    Fantastic Flash Fiction
    Fantastic Flash Fiction
    Fantastic Flash Fiction
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    Fantastic Flash Fiction

    By LIZ TUCKWELL

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    Bite size fairytale, fantasy, horror and SF stories

    How long does a good story need to be?

    Six words? Ten words? The length of a tweet? 100 words? 1,000?


    You'll enjoy finding out in this collection of tiny tales and very short stories.

     
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Griffin Books
    Release dateMar 2, 2021
    ISBN9781914333002
    Fantastic Flash Fiction
    Author

    LIZ TUCKWELL

    Liz  lives in North West London with her husband. She’s the younger of identical twins, (according to her twin sister Lynne, ten minutes makes all the difference). She wrote her first novel when she was thirteen but sadly this work of genius was lost to posterity when her father accidentally threw it out while she was at university (he said it was an accident). Liz has also published with her friend Rose Bishop, Quirky Christmas Stories, a collection of short fiction on Amazon. Liz has two short stories published: ‘A Dead Mermaid on Eel Pie Island’, published in the MCSI:Magical Crime Investigations anthology and ‘A Monster Met’ in the Short Sharp Shocks! Series published by Demain Publishing. Both are available on Amazon. If you have any questions or comments, Liz would love to hear from you. You can contact her through: Twitter: @liztuckwell1 Facebook: www.facebook.com/liztuckwellwriter Email: liz@liztuckwell@co.uk

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      Fantastic Flash Fiction - LIZ TUCKWELL

      Fantastic Flash Fiction

      Fantastic Flash Fiction

      Liz Tuckwell

      Copyright © 2020 by Liz Tuckwell

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      Contents

      VERY SHORT STORIES

      Six Word Stories

      Ten Word Stories

      TWITTER TALES

      Fairy Tales

      Fantasy

      Horror

      Science Fiction

      DRABBLES

      A Tree, Struck by Lightning

      Doreen

      The Elixir of Life

      Scrooge

      The Two Assassins

      The King’s Revenge

      The Real Dragon Slayer

      The Sea Monster and Its Mate

      No One There

      Jodie2

      Fairground

      The Snowflake

      Stalker

      FLASH FICTION

      The May Queen

      City From The Sea

      Modern Medusa

      Red and the Alien Wolf

      White and the Alien Queen

      Afterword

      About the Author

      Also by Liz Tuckwell

      VERY SHORT STORIES

      Six Word Stories

      Foolish Unicorn

      Sly virgin. Trusting unicorn. Bloody horn.

      Happy Mermaid

      Siren song. Sailor overboard. Happy mermaid.

      Dragon Meal

      Fire storm. Barbecue for dinner tonight.

      The Ogre

      Ugly face. Ugly heart. Hates humans.

      The Wild Hunt

      The Wild Hunt rides.

      Humans hide.

      Ten Word Stories

      Cabbage Soup

      ‘Too fat.’

      Only allowed cabbage soup.

      She ate him. Tasty.

      Santa

      Dad played Santa for the kids.

      Intruder killed in house.

      The Snowman

      My heart melted.

      So did the rest of my body.

      Nice Little Girl

      Nice little girl. Pink rosebud mouth. Small sharp white fangs.

      My Bloody Valentine

      ‘Be my valentine.’

      Bloody knife pins oozing heart to card.

      Demon Bridegroom

      Bride arrives.

      Bridegroom turns. Tusks and yellow eyes.

      Bride flees.

      Frankenstein

      The monster has daddy issues. Frankenstein has his own problems.

      Dragon Hoard

      Yellow gold. Dragon.

      Robbers intrude. Fiery blast.

      Black scorch marks.

      TWITTER TALES

      Fairy Tales

      Fairy godmothers don’t always know best. Prince Charming was a sexist miser who had a shoe fetish and lost his hair early.

      Three talking walking bears. About to eat Goldilocks until she told them her dad was an agent. Now, they’re performing nightly in Las Vegas.

      One wicked stepmother. One magic mirror. One poisoned apple. Seven dwarves. Shame the prince was a necrophiliac.

      He was full of style and verve as demonstrated by his thigh high - polished until they dazzled - boots. And he was witty and clever. The cat couldn’t understand why Dick Whittington was Mayor of London instead of him.

      A Queen pricked her finger while sewing. A drop of red blood fell, contrasting with the snowy scene

      The queen began, ‘I want my child to have hair as black as night, skin as white as snow and rubiginous lips....’

      ‘Stop,’ said the scaly demon she’d summoned, ‘She can’t. Won’t work.’

      The queen pouted. ‘I make the

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