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Issue 14: August 2022
Microfiction: 48 words
By Dave Alcock

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A room. A chill. A nausea. A void of blackness into which you descend. A separation. Lost faces of loved ones. Your life spins like a penny down a well. A scream recalls the shining wonder above the chasm. Something echoes and you unhold. Your name resounds.

Dave Alcock
Issue 14, August 2022

has been interested in flash fiction ever since 2016 when he received Flash Fiction Forward (ed. James Thomas and Robert Shapard) as a surprise gift. He read the first page and was hooked and he has been ever since. His work has been published by Every Day Fiction and Flash Frontier, as well as some other excellent lit-zines, and can also be found in two books published by Ad Hoc Fiction. He works as an editor and lives with his wife and two children in Devon, England.

 
 
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