“Christian my boy, check this out,” said Peter, double-clicking a video file on his laptop. Christian watched the clip over his flabby boss’ shoulder, recognising the sultry half-dressed pop star but, naturally, not the song it belonged to. “The inverted cross, numerous references to the single eye, the pyramid…. we’ve certainly dropped the ball,” said […]
I decided to go out in the herd. I usually tried to avoid it, as did most of the other Controllers, but I’d had enough. I’d always known that I’d been infected with a sense of empathy for the stock, but before I could report it and take precautions, it was too late. Somehow, I […]
This is the version I rewrote after deciding against an earlier story (posted previously on here). It’s almost flash fiction, and I tried to throw in a double-twist at the end. Angela’s First Day Angela perched on the polyester-covered office chair and studied her desk. It was sparse and ill-considered; a drab keyboard, an RSI-inducing […]
IMagine if your friends had organised a suprise for you. You walk into the room, the light go on and…? 500 words. To me, I winged this piece. It feels like I almost got this right, but the word constraint made me force a size 12 idea into a size 9 format. This was a […]
This is a piece describing being burgled, in about 500 words. I wasn’t a fan of this exercise; I’m quite “macro” in my view of the universe, whereas this piece was narrowing my focus onto the “micro” aspects of an event. However, this is something that I have noticed of late; my viewpoint. I read […]
This assignment shows a son trying to tactfully broach the subject about his mother moving into a home, with a word count of 250. The old women is loosely based upon my own grandmother, specifically the twiddling of the thumbs and the “can’t wait for me to die” line. She would twiddle her thumbs when […]
This exercise shows two characters in a heated disagreement with a word count of 250 words maximum. This was a first idea for the assignment; the one I submitted was more normal (about a taxi driver and a passenger arguing over a fare). Credit to my tutor – I think he knows that I pulled […]
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