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To the Home Page of author Gordon Lawrie. Born in 1952, the former Modern Studies teacher made a career change in 2010 and started writing all sorts of stuff – novels and short stories, essays, even music and recipes.
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Featured Flash Fiction
I write a lot of flash fiction – most Fridays, in fact. Mine is always exactly 100 words long. You can find much more of it in the archive, and you can download my free ebooks 100 Not Out and 200 Not Out. If you'd like to give it a try yourself, visit the site I also edit, Friday Flash Fiction.
BECAUSE THE WALL DIDN'T DO ITS JOB
In Spring, the migrants came north, encouraged by improved weather and better life opportunities. The Wall proved no barrier.
There’s little doubt that the migrants were helping themselves to whatever food they could find easily, but rumours spread that they were eating people’s pets. Getting it all wrong, one politician insisted that “In Springfield, they’re eating cats and dogs.”
It was all the encouragement the locals needed. Chanting the Second Amendment in unison, they took up arms against these ‘aliens’. The result was carnage. By September, millions of hawks, kites and falcons had gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon.
There’s little doubt that the migrants were helping themselves to whatever food they could find easily, but rumours spread that they were eating people’s pets. Getting it all wrong, one politician insisted that “In Springfield, they’re eating cats and dogs.”
It was all the encouragement the locals needed. Chanting the Second Amendment in unison, they took up arms against these ‘aliens’. The result was carnage. By September, millions of hawks, kites and falcons had gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon.
To read more flash fiction, go to the Flash Fiction section. To download the FREE ebooks click on the image below.
