'A widow with a bowl of wine and lipstick coming off'

I'm delighted to have been longlisted for the Bath February Flash Fiction Award 2016. My piece 'A widow with a bowl of wine and lipstick coming off' will appear in an anthology at the end of the year. I see flash fiction as fireworks - small with a beautiful punch - but still demanding time and energy in creating - you'd be surprised at how much you can tweak 300 words, and as the writer, you know more than ever, as you shift the words around in such a small space, how arbitrary it all is.

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