Into the Unknown FFfAW

11 Jul 201723 Jul 2017

Thanks to Grant-Sud for the photo promt for this week's Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers Into the Unknown Life, he realized, was a game of brinkmanship. Each decision led to…

Strange Gyrations – Flash Fiction

30 Aug 201630 Aug 2016

"I specifically told Eunice not to drink absinthe while taking cold medicine." "She never listens" "Well now who is going to fly the helicopter?" (silence) "We could jump." "Well 'apres…

Uncustomary Attention – A Lowenbrau Tale

21 Jul 201621 Jul 2016

Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau, Mother, Little Wendy, the Danger Twins, and Great Aunt Eunice were exploring the Sensoji Temple. Oblivious of the social niceties they had inadvertently shocked the collected…

The Holiday – Flash Fiction

17 Jul 201618 Jul 2016

“I say chaps! Who’s for some fried eggs?” “This is hardly the time for such a question Bertie, what with the horse dead and the girls gone.” “Well I just…

Fully Booked – A Lowenbrau Tale

21 Jun 201621 Jun 2016

Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau, the Danger Twins, Little Wendy and Mother were being shown Oxford by Mother’s friend “The Don”. “Observe the Chippendale stools made especially for this library.” Unfortunately,…

Cheesed Off! – A Lowenbrau Tale

24 May 2016

Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau, The Danger Twins, Great Aunt Eunice, Little Wendy and Mother were the first to notice the smell. “Oh my days! What’s died!” “Don’t look at us!”…

The Wiped Away World

19 Apr 201619 Apr 2016

Flash Fiction on a Tuesday and a break from the poetic...   The sails of the windmill turned and, Marie, crouching behind the flour sacks, waited. The cries beyond the…

A Family Portrait – Lowenbrau Family

25 Mar 201625 Mar 2016

A good Friday at home and a chance to write for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Friday Fiction for Ronovan Writes, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, Photo 101 and French…

Flash Fiction – Tonight You Die

19 Feb 201619 Feb 2016

I had come to St Malo for inspiration, a fugitive from my past, starting a new life as an artist. Standing on the causeway between St Malo and the Grand…

National Oyster Day

7 Feb 20167 Feb 2016

  The amazing oyster beds of Cancale in Brittany. You can buy oysters by the dozen on the shore but beware! We all know what that can lead too! ...oOo...…

Fine Work – FFfAW

20 Jan 201620 Jan 2016

Take a stroll down Lullaby Lane and Call on Mrs Gwendoline Jones. She spends her days unpicking realities and re-stitching them into dreams. Every evening she can be found, needle…

What? No Hanky Panky? FFfAW

12 Jan 201612 Jan 2016

Little Wendy, Mother, The Danger Twins and Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau had trudged behind Great Aunt Eunice about the streets of St Malo for two hours hoping to rediscover the…

The Lowenbrau and the Death Star

29 Dec 201529 Dec 2015

Little Wendy, Grandmamma and Grandpappa Lowenbrau,The Danger Twins, Great Aunt Eunice and Mother wandered about the Agricultural fair, Little Wendy clutching the huge carton of mango and raisin yoghurt she…

Gift of Memory

23 Dec 201523 Dec 2015

Waking early Christmas morning, Madame Quenelle set the table and put a cracker by the plate. A trip to the bakery for a baguette and then delicious odours of roasting…

A Lowenbrau Christmas

16 Dec 201516 Dec 2015

“Here, try this.” Great Aunt Eunice handed Grandpappa a glass of her “famous” egg-nog. Grandpappa sipped appreciatively…egg, cream, and equal parts rum and “Dr Macreedy’s Horse Liniment”. “Delicious!” he sighed…