How to get the austerity chic look! Step into this season’s austere fashions by correcting your posture on fiscal deficit. Reduce the appearance of fine tax credits for lower-income earners and plump the riches of the richest. Slip into something less comfortable by removing housing benefit and public services. Look edgy with the latest must-haveContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘Austerity Chic’”
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100-Word Fiction: ‘But If It Is What We Believe’
You must believe that what we did was not wrong. You must believe that we did not what was wrong. What you must believe… that we did… was not wrong. Must you believe that what we did was not wrong? You must not believe that what we did was wrong. What was wrong that weContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘But If It Is What We Believe’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘How Things Change’
I have a clear memory of a moment when I was a young boy of around nine or ten years old. Perhaps it was the summer holidays or Easter. I think I must have been bored and was in my room sat on the bed or floor. I picked up some old toys to playContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘How Things Change’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘Red’
When I was seventeen, the word ‘red’ meant only one thing: the colour of my girlfriend’s hair. I lie; now it comes to me – her red lipstick lips too. The thoughts we had and things we did. But of course it didn’t last and, well, things change. I changed. I was angry in myContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘Red’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘6 May 2010’
A light aircraft just dropped out of the sky, enmeshed, literally, in its own trail of propaganda. Over our own heads are helicopters and, down in the square below, hundreds of office workers have congregated for a fire drill. We are booking my birthday meal and discussing people’s relationships: how friends are feeling; what mightContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘6 May 2010’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘For the Buzz’
They say we are social creatures but I do not feel that to be the case. I have been working alone. It has been some time since I was home. Oh but… I heard reports. You could hardly fail to hear. It was disease maybe, or chemical warfare. Whole colonies wiped out. No one caresContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘For the Buzz’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘We Knew What We Were Doing’
So right we knew he’d lost control of the class yeah, and what we said was that we could get to him and make him snap. You know. We had planned it like. He was a nutter, man. Crazy. Everyone knew. Even the teachers. You could hear them saying things and when he came backContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘We Knew What We Were Doing’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘Cairo’
Day Four: The hotel lobby is cool. The internet connection is slow and staff are hovering, scowling, grumbling. There are no flights out of Africa for days – news reports say a week, airlines say nothing until next month. At the rooftop pool the air is choking thick with smog and the ten-lane jam ofContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘Cairo’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘The Yard Sweepers’
…’kin ’ell, said the new lad. Look at the state of it though. Better get started then ain’t ye. But. I mean. Who the fuck’d’ve left it like this? Been like it fer years mate. Yer fuckin jokin. Nah. Nah, I mean, but mate. My first day n’all? You got it. You wanna be backContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘The Yard Sweepers’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘The Frogs’
Who said there are no poets any more? There they are, croaking their message in the lake, evading imminent disaster. There they go, to return safely after ten whole days into the rubble and dust. But no one will have listened. Dionysus was waylaid. Aeschylus and Euripedes dead and bickering. Even Aristophanes only hums aContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘The Frogs’”
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