Congratulations Alison Powell! bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/06/alison…

I’m picturing twelve tiny people in a shoebox

I’ll sit this one out if you don’t mind

Can’t believe it’s a week on since the 2025 Flash Fiction Festival in Bristol. Thank you everyone who came from around the world & helped create a wonderful #flashfiction community. Thank you to Tim Craig for taking the picture. It was all fabulous!

Me (receiving a story rejection after six months): ‘What? You made me wait six months for THAT?!’ Also me (receiving a story rejection after 24 hours): ‘What? You couldn’t even let me live in hope for a bit?!’

*Kenneth Williams Face*

No picture has ever summed up the IQ of the far-right more than this.

He's a small child. The President is a small child, and they treat him like a small child. It's remarkable.

Peppermint oil may not entirely deter mice from your home but you do at least end up with nicer smelling mice.

Aren’t they in enough pane as it is?

I guess it’ll save me supplying my own pinch of salt …

And my children laugh at me when I tell them about the ‘cutting edge’ technology we had back in the 90s…

Here we go again ! Tories saying France "should take its fair share of asylum seekers" In 2024 France🇫🇷 had 153k claims, compared to 🇬🇧108k 🇫🇷granted 70k, almost DOUBLE the 39.6K 🇬🇧granted but hey, what do facts matter Alex Burghart ? 👏Matt Barbet for challenge

A consequence of leaving the ECHR would mean the UK could reintroduce the death penalty, which Farage and Reform seem to want. Here's Ian Hislop to explain why that's a ridiculous idea 👇👇👇

Well if he took the headphones off he might actually hear something

“join us on Question Time where we will be discussing if the BBC is too left wing. On the panel this week: Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Un and Vlad the Impaler”

You are less likely to be a vicitm of violent crime in London than in the rest of England and Wales - Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan Lawless London garbage of the British and US reactionary Hard and Far Right is another con job.

Thinking of starting a litmag called 'On Hiatus' so that it won't come as a surprise to anyone four issues later.

‘Les patrons meurent ici’

Don’t say it.