Last week's inclusion of 'anemone' was inspired by the postcard I was using as a bookmark, depicting Margaret Mellis' 1957 painting 'Dead anemones https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/dead-anemones-166972 You did her proud, each entry gently steering the reader to a pit of particular horror. So proud I really, really struggled to rate one above the rest. When the time came to choose it could have been any one of you, but Perry's nigh-literal stomach-turning 'Perspective' won the day.
A word of thanks also for your very welcome comments on my pieces - as ever the need to match quality with quality ups my efforts.
From Sunday, for a week I shall be away from home, and very possibly in places where internet is intermittent – and so I ask each of you to name your favourite entry of the week on Friday. New prompt words have been scheduled to appear on the 16th.
Words for the coming week: cherry
magnet worse
Entries by midnight Thursday 15th
July new words posted Friday
16th
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.
