OUT NOW! A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed: National Flash Fiction Day 2016 Anthology.
A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed is an anthology of flash-fictions, published to celebrate National Flash-Fiction Day (UK), and showcasing the very best talents to have written in this challenging miniature literary form. The stories in A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed are in a variety of genres, styles and forms, ranging from horror to romance, from fantasy to dark reality, from urban terror to comedy. Many of the stories in A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed will resonate with readers long after reading.
A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed
Contents
Foreword: The Editors
Before the Sun Comes Up: Tim Stevenson
Miss Scarlet in the Shed: Tracy Fells
Cold Hands: Rhoda Greaves
Ambush: Richard Holt
Outsider: Laura Huntley
Theseus in Belleville: Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber
Bocca Baciata: Ruth McKee
Health and Pleasure, Glorious Sea!: Sharon Telfer
Gingerbread: Virginia Moffat
A Marionettist’s Musings While on a Park Bench: Charley Karchin
Bubblegum Barbie: Emily Devane
Lifer: Adam Trodd
Shirts – A Fable: R J Dent
Sam, 29: Martha Gleeson
Three Kids, Two Balloons: KM Elkes
Who? What?: Ashley Chantler
Pub Quiz: Alison Wassell
Sushi and Kitty Cats: Kaitlyn Johnson
Desert Blossom: Annie Mitchell
Premiums: Ian Shine
Misunderstanding: Vivien Jones
Wakes Week: David Hartley
Burning Faith: Frankie McMillan
Pigeon English: David Cook
Kittiwakes: Catherine Edmunds
The Door Closes: Kevlin Henney
Clippers: Debbi Voisey
I Go on the Morrow to Murder the King: Joy Myserscough
Special Delivery: Calum Kerr
Grains: Joanna Campbell
Panda: Fat Roland
Fish Supper: Laura Tickle
The Vineyard: Catherine McNamara
What We Threw Into the Lake: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
The Pleasure Principle: Rob Walton
Onion: Damhnait Monaghan
My Aunt Aggie: Paul McVeigh
A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed: Jon Stubbington
A Collection: Diane Simmons
Kelly Loves Traffic Light Jelly: Jeanette Sheppard
Yellow: Nuala Ní Chonchúir
424 Likes: Jennifer Harvey
Manspreading: Marie Gethins
Wake Up: Oli Morriss
When Dreams are Large and Tusked: Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Ten Things that Happened After My Funeral: Santino Prinzi
What the Therapist Said: Jude Higgins
Gregor Samsa Quits the Track Team: Beverly C. Lucey
Honesty’s Not the Best Policy: Brendan Way
Orphans: Chris Stanley
And the Red Flower: Nina Lindmark Lie
One Last Pickup: Sarah Hilary
Sunday Morning: John Holland
About Unemployment and Rats: Bernard O’Rourke
Captain Strix: Zoe Gilbert
Latchkey: Fiona J. Mackintosh
Lips: Nik Perring
Map Reading: Jane Roberts
How to Make Lolo: Michelle Elvy
Family Values: Jonathan Pinnock
Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night: Claire Fuller
Hornet’s Nest: Sally Burnette
The Taste of Sock and Rubber: Cathy Bryant
In the Café: Sherri Turner
On the Invisibility of the Deaf: Debbie Young
Flying Ant Day: Judy Darley
Marzipan Bride and Groom: Sal Page
I Believe in You: Meg Pokrass
When She Was Good: Safia Moore
Injuries in Dust: Poppy O’Neill
We Can Be Asteroids: FJ Morris
Purple with a Purpose: Amanda Saint
Little Ghosts: Jan Carson
The Night Life of Wives: Angela Readman
The Jumper: Anne Patterson
A One-Word Yet…: Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Storm: Gemma Govier
Jessie Learns How to Keep A Secret: Alison Wassell
Illumination: Judi Walsh
When Words Aren’t Enough: Lucy Welch
Christmas: James Watkins
Always One: Tracy Fells
Notes: Elaine Marie McKay
Energy Efficient, Extremely Slim, Easy to Install: Ed Broom
A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed: National Flash Fiction Day 2016 Anthology is out now!
To purchase the paperback edition of the anthology, please follow this link here: A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed. (paperback)
To purchase the e-book edition of the anthology, please follow this link here: A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed. (e-book)
Follow R J Dent’s work on:
Website: http://www.rjdent.com/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/R.-J.-Dent/e/B0034Q3RD4
Blog: https://rjdent.wordpress.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/RJDent
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rjdentwriter
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rjdent69
An Untitled Piece of Writing by R J Dent
April 4, 2016Text:
Huh nee… mm mm… ow ryu…hrn ee… yeh… mm hm… mtu… ths gd… wzs tht thn… bh cs… mmm… i fl lk… mm mm… skn… lkn… fkn… yr ck… yd oo dyr… ys iyd oo… wl i fl lk lkn… skn… fkn… yr cn t… du yu rly… yr id oo… mm… ino… hm hm… yu wn tha… ym mm… oh… an tha… mmm… ye ye… oka… thn dw tha… ohh… fme… yeh… mmm… thas fkn byu tfl… oh… oh oh… ye… ye… yeh… jee sus… yr fkn lv lee… ah… nd yr fkn lv lee tu… ah… tk dty tu me… hwd ym een… kmon y no… dty wds… tht srt oth ng… oka… bnd ovr bch… oh… oka… nw gwon… sprd m wd… oh… f me… mm mm… gw on bby… pt yr fce thr… mm mm… thas t… stk yr tng rt upt… ths t… o yh… gwon… lkit… hrd… ye ye… o… ye… dwit fm ee… sy mr dty wds… whl i sk yu… yu va lvl ee cnt… a byu tfl… lv lee… tst ee cnt… o… ar… yss… sy mr… cll m… nms… y slt… ah yss… mr… y byu tfl fkn lvl ee chp sl te hr… o yss… ths it… n ow… rm tn… yra… byu tfl… fkn bch… hhh… ng… gg… cl me a byu tfl hr gn… yu byu tfl fkn hr… lv lee… lv yu… lv yr boh dee… suh byu tfl… hr… oh ye… oh yeh… k moh vrm ee… k minm ee… ths it…. yeh o… ah… oh… ah… oh… yss… ll vu… gv… it… t… me… hrd… slm tn… aa… aa… ys… fk… fk… ah… fk hrd rr… ys… ys… fk m… fk m… ohh hhh… yssss… hg gh… hh hg gh… yaa… yaa… hg… gh… fr… haaa… huhu… hu… yehh… mmm hmm… hmm mmm… yu ka ym… mm… me tu…
Commentary:
And so, if you should happen to find writing of the type that is taking up the space above these expositional lines, examine it carefully for what sort of text it might be – and what it might be doing. Does it have a purpose? A meaning? Are there any messages in it? Is it of any practical use? Do we learn anything from it? Is it English (Standard, I mean)? Does it conform to the grammatical and lexical rules we all know so well? If not, why not? Read more…
An Untitled Piece of Writing
Copyright © R J Dent (2016)
Follow R J Dent’s work on:
website: http://www.rjdent.com/
blog: https://rjdent.wordpress.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/RJDent
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rjdentwriter
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rjdent69
Tags:code, commentary, Erotica, R J Dent, R J Dent's essays, R J Dent's fiction, R J Dent's short stories, textual analysis, untitled writing
Posted in English Fiction, R J Dent's essays, R J Dent's short stories | Leave a Comment »