The fifth volume of fifty flash fictions and longer short stories featured on Morgen Bailey's blog. Written from different prompts, and published at 5pm daily from June 2012. Other volumes available. Stories in these collections vary in length and genre. Here we have a passion wagon, a full moon, police escorts, tugged hearts and curved smiles. We meet a variety of dogs (including borrowed and best in show), a ghost from a half-empty bed, an American werewolf in London, a contented tree, and spouses with revenge on their mind. The stories are: I could have cried (491 words), Even the dog is borrowed (302), Me, myself and I (895), Transparent (433), The ghost of the half-empty bed (622), Andrew would have been proud (330), Furry like a dog (698), Passion Wagon (60), All he wanted (198), Best in Show (795), Two backwards, one forwards (476), Full Moon (166), Eddie's Fault (454), Getting to seven (204), Smile (140), Incessant Vera (194), Elimination (294), Lock jaw (29), Hold On (725), They try to with the food (670), Just getting started (60), An American Werewolf in London (710), No joke (127), A lot to learn (933), Sentimental keepsake (547), Ocean Drive (321), Police escort (619), Spice of life (238), Giving Gene Simmons a run for his money (55), Two Rows (567), Half-human (292), A Bad Feeling (300), Off by Heart (120), Hot Air (55), Write what you know (141), How hard can that b- (55), All Heart (504), Through (111), Curved into a smile (663), Tumble Turn (167 words), Bringing Work Home (87), Muddied By Misfortune (163 words), A Right Miss Marple (333), Mum Thinks It Was Me (210 words), Trust Me (391 words), Attracting Airheads (427 words), Erlina Didn't Mind (94 words), First Day (151 words), Cleaning Up The Town (71), Holding Hands (400). Total word count: 16,998. 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.
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.