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Next week I shall be in Orkney and although internet connection should be easy, and new prompt words will be scheduled to appear sometime on Friday 3rd September, I ask each of you to name your favourite entry of this week.

I know I keep saying this, but each week it seems a new set of stops has been pulled out, a new level of inventiveness attained. Which, as ever, means the singling out of just one isn't anywhere near as enjoyable as the reading of them all. However, I was especially impressed with the sharp brevity of Patricia's SNAFU so will elect that as top of the bill this week (to mix several metaphors.)

Words for the coming week:  drum    sorrow   stone

Entries by midnight Thursday 2nd September,  new words posted Friday 3rd

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

First of the rules

 is that we write horror (something I rarely achieve, being more comfortable with the cosiness of noir). Jim's 'An answer' fulfilled that to overflowing, as I'm sure we all agreed, but, as ever, well done and thank you to the rest of you who added to the week's entertainment,

 Words for the coming week:  dream  odour  virtue

Entries by midnight Thursday 26th August,  new words posted Friday 27th

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

Wealth of entries

What with Perry's cast management, David's brilliant structure, Terrie's cheeky giggling and Jim's physically-challenging existence, along with Antonia's gleam of optimism, it has been a good week.  John's 'The lounge singer', with the extra bonus of craft beer and for putting the melancholy of  'Turn the page' in my head, propelled itself to the front, but thank you all. 

Words for the coming week:  cuddle  theatre  Waterloo 

Entries by midnight Thursday 19th August,  new words posted Friday 20th 

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.

 

High clouds and a hint of rain

And more than a hint of difficulty about separating, selecting  any one of these entries and setting it above the rest, truly a difficult choice. Eventually, after many reads and re-reads (NOT a chore!) ,  Jim's 'A Question' wriggled its nose beyond the rest,  because of its having left me curious. 

Words for the coming week:  craft  gig  impregnable 

Entries by midnight Thursday 12th August,  new words posted Friday 13th 

Usual rules: 100 words maximum (excluding title) of flash fiction or poetry using all three words above in the genres of horror, fantasy, science fiction or noir. Serialised fiction is, as always, welcome. All variants and uses of the words and stems are fine. Feel free to post links to your stories on Twitter or Facebook or whichever.