Thrilled to have won the flash fiction prize for my story Walk of Life in Walk Listen Create’s Walking Home competition. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into being a writer in residence. Read my flash story here
Delighted to be awarded 3rd prize in Retreat West’s courses competition. “Dad chooses her to go to Mars.” Read my flash fiction story here
“The happy baby dances his way out of the womb, grin-shuffling on my stomach. Tipping his hat, expecting an encore. He gets a part in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.” Read my flash fiction story in the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2022 here
He asks for lobster. It’s not in the kitchen supplies and I’m not allowed anything from the outside world, so I fake it. Read my full story, The Last Supper, in Flash Fiction Festival, Volume Four
Zeus, the god of thunder and lightning and rain and wind and war, wallops the scarlet oak, grizzled old-man-bark groaning. Read my flash fiction story ‘What To Do If A Tree Falls On My House’ in Canopy, an anthology of writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022
Walking with a boy in the chalk hills of Wiltshire. Read my flash fiction story in WalkListen Create
From the Lower Silesian Forest to the Crowsnest Pass in Canada. Pines, forests and mountains – and beginning a new life. Read my flash fiction story in Walk,Listen,Create
Sibling rivalry – and pancakes with maple syrup. Read my shortlisted flash micro story (inspired by a pancake prompt from Jude Higgins) in The Blinkpot Award 2021 Flash Collection Ebook (page 19, if you’re interested).
It could only happen at a Near-Death experience group. Read my Flash Fiction story from The Molotov Cocktail here
Check out my flash story (from a Retreat West prompt) in New Flash Fiction Review
Cheryl Markosky 