About the Book
The first volume of fifty flash fictions and longer short stories featured on Morgen Bailey's blog, http: //morgenbailey.wordpress.com. Written from different prompts, and published at 5pm daily from June 2012. Other volumes available. Stories in these collections vary in length, point of view (first, second and third) and genre. Story no.s 30 and 31 in this volume contributed by short story author and novelist Tony Tibbenham. Here there are family heirlooms, thefts, murders, kidnapping, Chelsea buns, and alien hums. We meet mothers, strange little girls, characters looking to improve themselves, and several cold feet. Stories include: Life in the Old Dog (447 words), Strange Little Girl (425), The big black one with the space in the back (655), First impression (266), Joining the 21st Century (365), They always look at the shoes (223), Like out of space or something (173), Until Daniel (377), Too beautiful for words (356), Phonetics - A Winter's Tale (670), Just that extra (297), The innocent brick (158), How's your mum? (221), Our Joanie (240), Family heirlooms (227), Art theft (185), The Chelsea bun (240), An alien hum (110 one-sentence!), Scratch at the door (67), Thin enough (300), Having something in your mouth (166), Cold feet (145), Under (467), Same time tomorrow (587), Once the love's gone (626), a prequel to my free eShort April's Fool, Thinking big (228), Sometimes I forget (357), Funny peculiar (359), Varying degrees of German (346), Light - a guest story by my sci-fi writing friend Tony Tibbenham! (163), Raven hair flying - by Tony again (243), Getting off lightly (141), Quirky boots (60), Oh brother! (948), Double trouble (112), A woman by comparison (270), Stalemate (371), I knew a Joyce once (285), Every days (155), Weapon of choice (573), My one regret (335), Bath for two (147), Her eyes have never been bluer (176), Not even as affection (227), Just desserts (112), Carry on with the show (886), Not imaginary like Jack's (402), Feeding the Father (658), Are you going to tell her or shall I? (347), and Not visiting day (100). Total word count: 15,994. You can see the writing prompts that inspired this collection at http: //morgenbailey.wordpress.com/my-writing/short-stories/5pm-fiction. This collection is available as two paperback sizes: 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) and 5" x 8" (12.7cm x 20.32cm). This is the former, larger, size.
