The fourth 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. Here we have young and old love, spirited and strained relationships, local and exotic locations, and those who love or loathe shopping, circuses and those who think their life is a circus. We meet a disillusioned artist, an eight-foot tall blue alien, untidy teenagers, a fortune teller, and several dogs and dead (human) bodies. The stories are: The Accident (393 words), Black paint like tadpoles (314), A blue one (418), Something portable but durable (239), Nutcase (136), A different ending (184), Just as the number 12 pulled in (171), Travelling in parallel (273), It too hides my features (245), Not the most comfortable in town (234), Like Mother Like Son (270), Where Matt came from (171), Warning flag at the rapids (244), Charm just as bright (171), She favoured compassion today 253), You've got male (215), A Breed Apart (346), And no Lucy either (93), I'm sorry, you've been kidnapped (162), Left by the wayside (232), Let's face it (148), Escapism (28), Centipeding a distinctive diagonal line of dust (279), Like a scene from a Hammer movie (122), Who'd have teenagers? (168), Colourful. Loud. Exotic. (118), Consequences attached to being brave (137), Leaving isn't demure (148), Gasping for breath (528), The day Lillian learned to drive' (318), Surrounded by it in life, surrounded in death (432), A stranger would understand (331), Cobblers (234), A heartbeat to be attached to (451), Have a heart (260), Wait, listen and wait some more (576), Not life or death (487), No junk, no bills (403), Treacle Tart (578), Boston, Lincolnshire or Massachusetts (352), Until the shaking happened again (128), The curved soul (120), L'homme avec les yeux bleus (165), Their world was lacking (386), Pet Shop Blues (174), Like a Sergeant Major (220), Not a very grand job (490), Twenty-seven minutes (448), The Eye of the Tiger (290), Ticking? Clicking? Dripping? (240). Total word count: 13,523. You can see the writing prompts that inspired this collection at https: //morgenbailey.wordpress.com/me/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.
About the Author: Writer, editor, creative writing tutor, and blogger. Morgen writes novels, articles, 'how to's and some poetry but her first love is short stories. She lives in Northamptonshire, England, and shares her home with a very elderly but still young at heart Jack Russell-cross dog. Morgen's hobbies are mostly writing-related but she also enjoys helping out in her local charity shop... sorting out their donated books. She is also on Google+ (https: //plus.google.com/107111645945063089287) and Goodreads (http: //www.goodreads.com/user/show/6918390-morgen-bailey) and many others - see http: //morgenbailey.wordpress.com/contact.