Flashing Here & There

By Claire Buss

No time to read? Looking for some short tales to tickle your imagination while on the commute to work? Then look no further!

This collection of flash fiction has been specially crafted to ignite your love of stories and encourage you to take five minutes for yourself. Add a cup of tea and a slice of cake and you have the perfect relaxation activity.

Award-winning author Claire Buss brings you twenty eclectic flash fiction stories and tales with no more than 1000 words maximum. Delve into her imagination as she explores the everyday rooms in your house, alien auctions and what happens when you meet your fandom in real life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Claire Buss
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005118662

Claire Buss

Claire Buss is a science fiction, fantasy & contemporary writer based in the UK. She wanted to be Lois Lane when she grew up but work experience at her local paper was eye-opening. Instead Claire went on to work in a variety of admin roles for over a decade but never felt quite at home. An avid reader, baker and pinterest addict Claire won second place in the Barking and Dagenham Pen to Print writing competition in 2015 setting her writing career in motion. The Gaia Effect was published in 2016 and Tales from Suburbia in 2017.

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Flashing Here & There

A collection of flash fiction

by Claire Buss

Published by CB Visions in 2019

Copyright © Claire Buss 2019

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Other works by Claire Buss:

The Gaia Collection

The Gaia Effect

The Gaia Project

The Roshaven Books

The Rose Thief

The Interspecies Poker Tournament – The Roshaven Case Files No. 27

Ye Olde Magick Shoppe

Poetry

Little Book of Verse, Volume 1

Spring Fling, Little Book of Verse, Volume 2

Summer Dreaming, Little Book of Verse, Volume 3

Spooky Little Book of Verse, Volume 4

Short Story Collections

Tales from Suburbia

Tales from the Seaside

The Blue Serpent & other tales

Flashing Here & There

Anthologies

Underground Scratchings, Tales from the Underground anthology

Patient Data, The Quantum Soul anthology

A Badger Christmas Carol, The Sparkly Badgers' Christmas Anthology

Flashes

100 Words

Bathrooms

Bedrooms

Crying in the Wind

Dining Room

Falling

Journeys

Kitchens

Landscapes

Light & Shade

Naughty or Nice

New Year’s Resolution

Quay Keys

Real Estate

Snowed In

Sounds in My Ear

Supernatural Meets Mumlife

The Complications of Heroism

The Haunted House

They’re on Their Way

100 Words

She cries. I have a vague memory. Again, she cries. I stir. More fractious wailing. Eventually I groan. The misery doesn’t stop and so autopilot moves me. Heavy limbs fight every motion as I zombie out of bed. Eyes refuse to clear their slumber, but a memorised route prevents accidental collision. The bedroom door is opened with silent precision so as not to fully wake the child. Hesitant steps are taken. I hold my breath. The child sleeps. Now I must tiptoe back the way I came making not a whisper of a sound. Tiptoe. Tiptoe. She cries. I wake.

Bathrooms

By day the bathroom is an ordinary place. If you're super lucky, you have a separate toilet. Otherwise, you're staring at the bathtub while you pee and wondering how you missed that tideline when you cleaned it last. By day the bathroom looks cheerful, sparkly even. A place where you might think, yes, I will have a bath.

But baths