Ellipsis Flash Collection Competition 2019
Winners Overall Winner – Familial Disturbances by Mason BinkleySecond Place – The Naming of Bones by Jan KaneenThird Place – The Way our Voices Carry by Madeline Anthes Highly Commended…
Winners Overall Winner – Familial Disturbances by Mason BinkleySecond Place – The Naming of Bones by Jan KaneenThird Place – The Way our Voices Carry by Madeline Anthes Highly Commended…
Pushing open the door to the Brazilia bar Marcia licks her chapped lips, tasting already the Caipirinhas’ sweet sugar and sour lime luring her into the kick of Cachaças. She…
A sleep researcher’s life unravels as she attempts to uncover a mystery, in this debut thriller from Stephanie Carty. Christie works at London’s Somni Company to help others with sleep…
The Peculiarities of Yearning is a collection of flash fiction and short stories that uses strange scenarios to explore how human longings are repressed and revealed. This collection includes stories…
Sitting in the campervan staring at the sea she no longer gets in because Ned isn’t with her, Ava feels a throbbing in her lip at the same time as…
Foam spatters Great Uncle Ben’s folded-up trouser hems as he splashes towards us through the shallow wavelets. Shell grains glitter his marbled feet. The receding tide washes over his footprints…
I shall use my time. I will drain it, wring it like a cloth. I shall flannel the faces of my children. I will hold their chins and know the…
She’s not sure when her heart first started to shrink but she remembers when she noticed it had. It was the day she stepped round the homeless woman outside the…
The end comes on a hot day, trees and cars throwing long shadows, lawns browning, tarmac oozing. Dark then light: Finn moves the ball from shade to sun, barely aware…
She knew by the look on his face that he had returned from wherever he’d travelled to this time. Finally found his way home. He pulled the saline drip from…
‘Remember when I hung you upside down by your legs here?’ The boy stands with his hands on his hips, all bravado, surveying the scene of his triumph, unaware that…
To mark the publication of Gaynor’s debut novella-in-flash, Among These Animals, in March 2021, we’re taking a brief look back over her writing career so far. Born in Wales, raised…