Border by Vishal Sudarshanwar “The children are crying aloud in border station, officer brought them milk ,children ask for mothers.“ Ironfell by Desmond White You are in the forge when barbarians ride into the village, shooting flaming arrows, cutting down peasants in the streets. What do you do? A) Get cut down in the […]
Read more "June’s Zeroflash Competition Entries"Some of my earliest reading memories come from those wonderful and inventive choose-your-own-adventure books, mainly written by the amazing, Ian Livingstone. His imagination is likely somewhat responsible for the creative spark that started me writing. This month, I want your fantasy adventures. 300 words is a little small to ‘choose an adventure’, but if you […]
Read more "June’s Zeroflash Flash Fiction Competition"Interview with David J. Wing of Zeroflash This week we have fellow blogger and flash fiction author, David J. Wing. David was also a previous Horror Scribes competition winner. Hi David and welcome back to Horror Scribes. Please tell us a bit about you and your writing. Where to begin…It was a cold and stormy night. […]
Read more "Incase you missed it – my interview with Horrorscribes"We’d like to thank last month’s winner, Frank Trauman for graciously agreeing to guest judge April’s Zeroflash competition entries. Frank Trautman is the name of a cocoon of flesh and fentress wire living in the southeastern U.S. It’s a writer, scientist, husband and father. You know, important things. Eventually, a moth will scrabble out its […]
Read more "April’s Guest Zeroflash Judge is Frank Trautman"The Guardian by Russell Fellows With her clothes torn and body bloodied, Miranda stood by the lake. Morning mist spilled onto the shore and into the woods. Her thoughts traveled south with the mist into the village. She would regret the children, but the beast would spare no one. The village named this place Onheil […]
Read more "April’s Zeroflash Competition Entries"This month’s competition is one close to my heart. ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, by H.P.Lovecraft (the same story that we based the logo on this month). I read and re-read this book a number of times and it led to my own writing taking something of a dark and sinister, un-Godly slant. I even […]
Read more "MARCH’S ZEROFLASH WRITING COMPETITION"This month zeroflash has gone a little trippy. We tasked illustrator, Jon Stubbington to channel his inner Escher and this is what he came-up with. Can you spot the zero? So, in-keeping with Jon’s vision, I’m asking for the trippiest, freakiest, most surreal piece of prose you can concoct. Let your mind roam and your […]
Read more "February’s Zeroflash Writing Competition"Asimov’s Nightmare by Christopher Moltzau With a self-inflicted pause to the panted breaths he hugged the broken wall, as the red light from what he fled took to light the world around him. His eyes grew wide, as his heart drummed in a panicked flutter and sweat took to drench his skin and his favorite […]
Read more "January’s Zeroflash Entries"Amanda Saint is a novelist, short story writer, and features journalist. Her debut novel, As If I Were A River, was a NetGalley Top 10 Book of the Month and a Book Magnet Blog Top 20 Book of 2016. Her short stories have been widely published and long and shortlisted for, or won, various prizes. […]
Read more "Getting into writing – an interview with Amanda Saint of Retreat West"Well, it’s a new year and we’re feeling like this might just be THE year for Zeroflash and our friends. Our first anthology is tentatively due for release this or next month (cough cough), the entries are incredible and the writers are, well, they’re pretty top notch. This month’s competition is future themed. You’ll have […]
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