The next in our blog series of Napkin Halloween-themed stories is Christopher White’s ‘The Writer’s Curse’. . . The Writer’s Curse Damned Hallowe’en mused the writer. He was stuck in a rundown café staring into […]
Up next in the Napkin blog series is Terry Buchan and his flash fiction work ‘Hallowmas’. . . Hallowmas This is your Hallowmas call. Are you some kind of cult? Putting you through now …
Colin Stathers is our next Napkin winner, with his spooky Halloween-themed story ‘Trick Or Treat’. Trick Or Treat Help. The word never left his lips. Only the muffled sound of rummaging, somewhere close by, pervaded
The Leeds Big Bookend’s own Vicky Pointing was a Napkin Story winner with her flash fiction piece, ‘Neighbourhood Witch’. Neighbourhood Witch I’m all for integration, but really, this has gone too far. The zombies –
Following on from last Friday’s post, here is another winner from the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness. The competition asked Leeds writers for short but scary flash fiction. The stories would be published in napkin format for
As part of the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness, The Leeds Big Bookend Blog is showcasing some of the fantastic flash fiction works that are now published in napkin format. The competition asked Leeds writers
Inspired by Charles Perrault’s fairytale, ‘Diamonds and Toads’, Vicky Pointing shares her flash fiction story ‘Gemma’ as part of her 35-day writing challenge. The stories never mention that the gift was hereditary. It wasn’t just
Leeds based writer Vicky Pointing talks about her experience of taking on a 35 day flash fiction challenge. Flash fiction, for anyone who isn’t familiar with it, is generally defined as a short story of
Aissa Gallie, one of LS13′s twenty contributors, shares the influences and inspirations that led her to writing. What does it mean to be a writer? This question I have mulled over for many years in
