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Another wee publication

I entered a contest through Globe Soup which was to write a story of up to 100 words on the theme of Darkness. I didn’t win the contest but my story is now published here for you to read. With many thanks to The Drabble for publishing it 🙂

The story is called The World Without Stars and is about how the world might react if the stars all disappeared.

I’ve only recently started turning my hand to flash fiction and it’s an even tricker endeavour when your story is limited to just 100 words. However, I do think it’s teaching me a lot about making every word count and really considering which words are best at communicating my ideas. I do think it’s helping to hone my general writing skills, which will hopefully mean improvements in my short stories and longer fiction over time.

I hope you enjoy my story and if you’re just discovering my website please do check out my other work. I enjoy writing fantasy in particular and my current work in progress is a serialised young adult fantasy novel called George Square 🙂

My first publication!

Click here to go to my story, Catriona Banks, on Spillwords 😀

I think I mentioned in a previous blog post that I’ve been working on short stories and flash fiction along with continuing to update George Square. Most of my work has been entered into contests with Globe Soup, who you should definitely check out if you’re interested in writing because they have a very active and supportive Facebook community as well as regular free to enter contests.

Once I inevitably don’t win the contests (😅) I have started to submit my work to online publications. Most of these take a while to reply but I’ve now had my first acceptance! ☺️

Spillwords have published my short story, Catriona Banks – a modern fantasy tale about a thief who steals one of the Fae’s greatest treasures. You can read my story here as well as checking out the other work on their site.

I have submitted other stories elsewhere so fingers crossed there will soon be other updates about successes with my work! 😄