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Mikey – By Carolyn Belcher

Published By Carolyn Belcher • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: Flash Fiction

 
Amanda’s hand shook as she opened the front door. Would she find another bunch of daffodils wilting on the doorstep?
‘Got an admirer?’ the post-woman asked, handing her a parcel that was too big for the letterbox. She was looking at the flowers.
An admirer? The thought leapt at her; an admirer, she need not be frightened [...]



Sucking In Magic – By Carolyn Belcher

Published By Carolyn Belcher • Oct 18th, 2009 • Category: Flash Fiction

I walk down the empty street. The house is in darkness. The windows stare back at me as if to say, ‘Go now. Don’t be a ghost, haunting these rooms.’
I am an unloved, unlovely woman who… who…
Gina wouldn’t have understood that her words were as good as a punch in the belly, a punch that [...]