Well, Brexit may have happened* but not a lot else has around here. I'm still not ready to publish my next story, which has been sitting there three-quarters done for several weeks now. Things will insist on turning up and getting in the way. I mean, you're not actually missing very much, as it's only a silly little thing. But I definitely do not want to return to one of those "write virtually no ponyfic for 18 months" ruts. Maybe I should have a go at some flashfic prompts or something and

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I do have one or two full-length stories in mind, but I have no idea when I'll be able to get them done. In the meantime, I'm keeping myself going with a flashfic here and there. My latest, "Talk Talk", was an entry for the May 2016 contest on UK of Equestria, for which the prompt was "A warm spring day". As it's only 150 words, it's been placed in my Little Bits anthology, which is linked to this post, but

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There ended up being ten entries for the "Round and Round" flashfic contest, and I'm pleased to say that "Just Visiting" came in second. Considering it's ages since I've entered any sort of contest, let alone a flashfic one, I'm really quite

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It's been a while since I had a go at one of the Weekly Contests, er, contests. Their latest one (#25 -- here if you want to have a look yourself) had the prompt "Round and Round" and a maximum of 200 words. (A minimum of ten, incidentally, so at least one fic I've written wouldn't have fulfilled that criterion!) For this one, I knocked up a quick piece called

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It's been a while, but here's a bit of new writing. Not a full story; just a shortish poem for my Little Bits anthology; but I hope one or two of you like it nevertheless. So here's Out of Darkness Cometh Light.

Also, this:

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My highly colourful 100-word flash fic, Haven, picked up second place in the Weekly Contests, er, contest. (Because of its brevity, I've made it a chapter in my Little Bits anthology, hence the tag on this post.) There were ten entries, of which only one or two were less than serious attempts, so I'm quite pleased with that result. Still, the runner-up spot does mean

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Something I've wanted to do for a while is to post the story I wrote for the flash fic contest at last year's BUCK. Unfortunately, we weren't given our manuscripts back after the con, so the direct approach wasn't an option. Instead, I wrote a story along the same lines, under the same restrictions. However, as that's only about 600 words, I couldn't post it as a standalone fic here. The site's suggestion for such writings is to place them in an anthology, so that's what I've done.

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