Tag: fiction
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Picture Fiction: The Pickup
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How long before pen hits paper…
….or fingers tap on keys? I have been thinking of at least 2 ideas for novels for the last 12 or 13 years, yet I still haven’t come close to getting started. I can churn out blogs, short stories, articles & one line fiction until the cows come home, yet, I just can’t seem to…
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Sentence Of Suspense: Plummeting
I’d never flown before and I wished I’d kept it that way, I couldn’t hear myself think as the screams inside the cabin and the deafening roar of the failed 777’s engines filled what little air we had, all I could do was squeeze my wife’s hand as we plummeted towards the icey Atlantic. Read…
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One Line Horror: The Uglies
He couldn’t look at them, the sheer stench of their rotting flesh stained breath through broken yellow teeth made his eyes water, how he wished he’d filled up his gas tank before setting off, although hindsight couldn’t help him now as the two hideous Cannibals tore strips from his body. Read more One Line Horror Photo…
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One Line Horror: The hunted
I could feel myself sinking away, my breath prominent in the cold crispy night air, though his was even more prominent as he snorted and grunted while he tore pieces of meat from my exhausted body that failed to outrun this beast. Read more One Line Horror
Horror and Thriller Writer
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Sentence of Suspense: The exchange
The counting of the money took hours, he’d never counted a million dollars before, he’d only ever saw the number written on pay cheques or on his bank statements, but while he packed the bundles of money into the suitcases he trembled and sweated uncontrollably as the time to exchange the cash for his kidnapped…
Horror and Thriller Writer
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Sentence of Suspense: The getaway
I ran like I’d never ran before, my legs were like jelly and my heart thumped rapidly inside my rib cage while I dodged the gun shots and leapt across the railway track, the sound of the train thundering past with it’s honking horn was deafening and terrifying, but had at least bought me some…
Horror and Thriller Writer
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Sentence of Suspense: The deposit
All I had gone in to do was deposit a cheque for mum, it all happened so quickly, one minute I was in the que, the next I’m kissing the floor tiles of the bank with the rest of the unfortunate customers, with a shotgun barrel in my neck taking orders from six men in…
Horror and Thriller Writer
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One Line Horror: Back
He froze to the mattress as he felt her crawl into bed next to him, her hands were like ice and her hair like rats tails, he whimpered as he could feel the dress he recently buried his wife in. Read more One Line Horror
Horror and Thriller Writer