Message to Mars – flash fiction by Suzy Rowland

The sky turned blue as the MARSO, an official order from Mars Command, flashed across the sky: ‘Urgent request for water, supplies are running low.. Blink! Blink! Blink! MARSOs logged directly into the mainframe, so the operating team didn’t need to do anything but...
The drunken master of insecurity [FLASH FICTION]

The drunken master of insecurity [FLASH FICTION]

She felt like an imposter… ‘Who do I think I am, calling myself a writer?’ Where’s the deal, the positive acclaim, cosy interviews on TV sofas headphones on, waiting in radio studios for the ‘on air’ button to glow red? This is my...
Summer 2018 [INSTApoem]

Summer 2018 [INSTApoem]

So far, 2018 is turning into a mega Summer for heat and the extreme impacts of the heat, it will become one of those years that become fuzzy and pretty in your head if you let it. Save this summer, in the memory bank marked ‘good times’. The light and heat...

Asperger’s [POEM]

Relentless pursuit of one goal One, goal. Pure focus ‘what? we can’t cross the river here let’s build a bridge or a tunnel there must be a way!” An unbending line from here to my destination details to be written, recorded stored on plates, words, dates please...