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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 – every Friday, in fact. Mine is always 100 words long, and you can find much more of it in the archive, and you can download my free ebook 100 Not Out.
HOGMANAY FIREWORKS
Hogmanay, 2020: the famous Edinburgh street party fireworks display has been cancelled because of coronavirus.
Like many couples in their mid-eighties, Catherine and Jack will welcome 2021 in their bed. They're still having fun, though, imagining their own bedroom "fireworks" – rockets, Catherine wheels, jack-in-the-boxes, roman candles, bangers – anything with double meanings. Eventually, Catherine invites Jack to "light her fire", and they burn brightly for almost twenty minutes. Later, as they lie exhausted, Catherine says, "So, now we've discovered that mysterious 'COVID vaccine side-effect' they warned us about. If we asked, do you think they'd give us a booster next week?" |
To read more flash fiction, go to the Flash Fiction section. To download the FREE ebook click on the image below.
