Friday Flash Fiction
  • Home
    • About Friday Flash Fiction
  • 100-Word Stories
  • Longer Stories
  • Poetry
  • Authors
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-V
    • W-Z
  • Siderius Contest Entries
    • 100-Word Entries
    • 500-Word Entries
    • Short Poetry Entries

People Problems, by Cailey Tarriane

28/10/2022

 
Had a bad day-cade
the ten years filled my jar up with honey
can't get out of this sticky mess
mistaken ones were soon to self-pity
after once happily stepping into the trap,
my sticky mess-
they couldn't deal with it either.

Warholand, by Alex Blaine

28/10/2022

 
Big Brother
was
Warhol's
wet
dream

The Optimist, by Robert P. Bishop

28/10/2022

 
Fat wallet, crisp bills
The casino took them all
I'll win tomorrow

Solace Interruptus, by Robert Hunt

28/10/2022

 
bustling promenade
intrudes on the cool solace
of introversion

Spider, by Rashna Walton

28/10/2022

 
Have you seen a spider scurry
Or plod across a bowl of curry?
It spins its silk in tensile grey
And hides in haberdashery.
Have you watched one weave its web
Or lie there and pretend it's dead?
Of ugly, beastly ergonomics
It features large in Boys Own comics.
For those about to fill the tub, look out!
Each spindly leg will make you shout.
It hauls itself up by the chain
Or shelters just below the drain
Behind the tap, along the gap,
They really are innumerable
So don't you slip, and don't you fall
It'll be your funeral.

A Piece of Ecopoetry, by Michael Leach

21/10/2022

 
ecopoetry
ecotype
coyote
poetry
Crete
repot
trope
crop
root
tree
eco
rye
try
O

Hoop & Web, by Sterling Warner

21/10/2022

 
Dream catchers lodge where a crucifix once hung
above a single bed stuffed in a small closet
offering only enough room to reach the doorway
& strut outside; protected from nightmares,
my fulsome slumber interwove subconscious thoughts
& sleeping fantasies where high school sweethearts
walked like supermodels, I spoke like Casanova,
moved with the grace of a panther & style
of a coyote, searching for blue moons to guide
new adventures & places I never get to observe
during waking hours where sunlight glares, colors mute
& even best friends remain bent on acts of deception--
lacking personal dream catchers to capture
negative energy, allowing only good visions to pass.

Fitz, by Guy Fletcher

21/10/2022

 
Picture(Image ©ITV)
Alas, the end has come for Robbie Coltrane:
most famous for Hagrid in Harry Potter
but I recall Cracker many years ago
when life seemed to stretch forever.
He played a hard drinking psychologist
and was a sex symbol despite his size,
intelligent and with vulnerable eyes.

This role mirrored his life I'm led to believe
and how sad he spent his last few years
in constant and unbearable pain
but he will be fondly remembered,
a Scottish actor of renown.
Goodbye Robbie you were one of a kind
with a giant's body and giant mind.


EDITOR'S NOTE: We Scots remember the big man from a wonderful series dating even before that called Tutti Frutti, which also launched the careers of Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson (famous for the comedy series One Foot In The Grave.)

Something Lost, by Robert P. Bishop

21/10/2022

 
The fisherman’s hut
smells of dreams swept out to sea
on the ebbing tide

Elm Tree in October, by Guy Fletcher

21/10/2022

 
The leaves are illuminated
under the autumn sun, the wind's breath
speaks of colder days to come.
their hues are a splendid red and gold,
some flickering to the grass below
chasing each other just like lambs at play
as white clouds drift on this October day.

A horse is indifferent to the view
and a squirrel scurries up a branch
but I am transfixed by the sight,
each leaf with its own distinctive lines.
The tree appears beautiful to me
standing like an adonis in his prime
yet the leaves will be gone by wintertime.

Roadkill, by Mimi Grouse

21/10/2022

 
Speedster with a kingsized "Me"
And chronic immaturity -
Nothing matters. Hell, who cares?
Power's just for he-who-dares.
So ride the highway, drive your dream,
Ignore the way "it's always been";
Put your foot down, hit the gas,
Turn up the music. Move your ass!
Endless asphalt waxed with heat;
Drop the windows, feel the beat -
The engine's roaring... Load your gun,
tarmac-tyrant, and have some fun.
Open spaces, vaulted skies,
Wide-winged feathered freedom flies
across the windscreen. Hit the brake!
Dead bird. Dead driver. Deadly mistake.

Alice Key, by Roger Kenyon

14/10/2022

 
It's a key, Alice said. It opens the lock
that gives me privacy with my security box.

There are no locks here, Rabbit replied.
About that box, what'd you say's inside?

If there were locks, this would be a key.
I said that it's private; only matters to me.

If nothing to unlock, does a key make sense?
If privacy's inside, then outside is suspense.

What good is a key, if there are no locks.
How safe are secrets, when privacy’s lost?

Musicians, by Robert P. Bishop

14/10/2022

 
Cloudless summer day
Mosquitoes from the river
singing near my ear

The Throne on Dawlish Lawn, by Guy Fletcher

14/10/2022

 
Black swans drift in The Brook
as I saunter as if in a dream,
the sinking autumn sun
illuminating golden leaves
on the tree by the quaint bridge
leading me to Dawlish Lawn.
It is quiet without the tourists,
just a drunk in the pavilion.
I come across the stump of a chestnut tree
transformed into a wooden throne
with swans engraved, I reside on it
and she takes my photograph,
a moment of magic that will surely stay
inside my soul...until my dying day.

All Hallows Eve, by Marjan Sierhuis

14/10/2022

 
In Halloween garb,
witches welcome revelers
crickets anyone?

Journey, by Robert P. Bishop

14/10/2022

 
Clock measuring time
gnawing into my body
in autumn’s twilight

Overdue Southern Spring, by Michael Leach

7/10/2022

 
unclouded Sun
on the second day of Oct--
winter finally ends

Orange Sunrise, by Guy Fletcher

7/10/2022

 
It's one of those beautiful mornings:
an autumnal chill hangs in the air
my breath drifting like ectoplasm.
My gaze leads me to orange clouds,
the nearby woods seem to be on fire
as birds sing mellifluous songs.
A dog and owner stroll on past
and a commuter opens his tin box
thoughts not on the wonder above
although this sight is nature at its best
yet the vibrant clouds turn to grey again
but in my mind...the image will remain.

Musicians, by Robert P. Bishop

7/10/2022

 
Cloudless summer day
Mosquitoes from the river
singing near my ear

Scent of Love, by Padmini Krishnan

7/10/2022

 
in mother's Kalamkari shawl

still the scent

of pink jasmines

The Night of Veles, by Ivan Ristic

7/10/2022

 
Embrace the days
and nights of yore,
in honour of the forefathers
and their unforgotten lore.

When everything is quiet
and nothing is silent,
they will awake
to the scent of fall...
When nothing rises
and everything falls.

    Poetry

    This is the section where fiction prose becomes something else. We still expect the poems to be short, though – sonnets, perhaps, or around that length at the very most.

    Poems submitted should be
    no longer than 160 words
    and contain
    no more than 16 lines.

    100 words remains the approximate target.

    Please submit using the Poetry Submissions Page.


    Picture

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

Picture
Website by Platform 36