Shortlisted for the Tom-Gallon Trust Prize 2021 You’re in a room, bare and grey: a metal chair, a table covered with cigarette burns and a policeman sitting opposite who is making quite the joke of your predicament. You want to join in, to laugh with him about the stupid pills he’s just counted but now …

Longlisted for the Quiet Man Dave Flash Fiction Prize, Oct 2020 https://www.mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize/finalists-and-winners/ It was Eckstein’s idea, the duck. Who’d miss it? Sure, when it was alive it had golden feathers and a long, sad call. I certainly had nothing against it. But dead it was meat, chestnut-sweet and pink on the plate. Eckstein said all …

Flash Fiction BY SEAN LUSK – 23 JUNE 2020 They have gone, after all. And their advice was never right. They slurped their tea and liked to sleep with the windows wide open, even in January. They started crosswords but could never finish them without your help. Also, they began sentences without finishing them but would get …