Happy New Year!

I came quietly into 2022, laying low to keep Omicron at bay, for as long as possible. My copy of Snow Crow, Bath Flash Fiction Volume Six finally arrived, and I am delighted. This lovely book flew across the Atlantic, and most of the way through Canada. I’m late to the party but happy to have this in my hands at last.

My own tiny story, “Just Dessert,” appears on page 64. In total the Anthology contains 136 flash fictions, each one 300 words or less. Mine begins: “Mommy took the Robin Hood Flour cookbook from the cupboard above the fridge—where she also kept Elmer’s glue, binder twine, vagabond keys, gin—carrying it to the table where I sat in stillness.”

The book is full of excellent flash fiction.

From Sharon Telfer, judge of the October 2021 Award, and author of The Map Waits, Reflex Press, 2021:

All the stories here would find applauded homes in magazines…pieces that take the risk to step out on to the high wire…dreamscapes and dystopias, unheard perspectives and hidden inner dialogues, reworked fairy-tales and school play rebellions, the unexpected significance of custard, an earthquake on the page.

The collection is named for, and begins with, “Snow Crow” by Doug Ramspeck, winner of the October 2021 competition. His first line reads: “And the days were made of auguries.” And doesn’t that sound like an appropriate beginning for this new year?

• Purchase print copies of Snow Crow from Ad Hoc Fiction.
• E-books available at the usual locations.