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by Kik Lodge   On the train, a girl licks the window and her mother tells her to stop licking the window, but the girl carries on, and there’s me thinking let her lick the window, the cold mus…

“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” HeraclitusIf the path is steep and stony on the way up the mountain and if, perhaps, it crosses severalstreams or rivulets and, if there are fields ...

It is an interesting challenge to write about someone who has been overlooked, who is overshadowed by more vibrant characters. If they are at first glance unexceptional, is that to say dull or unin…

As babes, you toddling with the cleaver, your Ma yelling. As fresh pupils, you whispering the answer, us caned by Sister Adele. As fourth gr...

In the Afterlife, My Father Is Finally Content ​ I can just make him out, standing in one of his beloved fields, probably McIntosh’s Park. The sun is shining and clouds are drifting overhead,...

ALT: Kermit the Frog Typing on a Typewriter

Britain's biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide

It is an interesting challenge to write about someone who has been overlooked, who is overshadowed by more vibrant characters. If they are at first glance unexceptional, is that to say dull or unin…

Britain's biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide

Ali Smith visits Foyles to speak to the joint winners of the Weatherglass Novella Prize, Jupiter Jones and Anju Gaston

It is an interesting challenge to write about someone who has been overlooked, who is overshadowed by more vibrant characters. If they are at first glance unexceptional, is that to say dull or unin…