Leo’s eyes. Brad’s smile. Marlon’s lips. Arnie’s biceps. Bruce’s abs. Fall had none of these. He was skinny and awkward. Knock kneed. Narrow shouldered. Long armed. But Flo had been grateful when he’d helped her with her homework. And with her that night, in her dreams, he’d worn no clothes.

Dave Alcock

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, Flash Frontier, and MacQueen’s Quinterly, as well as some other excellent lit-zines, and can also be found in two anthologies published by Ad Hoc Fiction. He works as an editor and lives with his wife and two children in Devon, England.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ A Defence of Imitation, photograph and essay by Dave Alcock, with artworks by Catherine Alcock and Petrus Christus, in The Ekphrastic Review (22 February 2023)

⚡ Congeners, microfiction by Dave Alcock in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 13, May 2022); nominated by MacQ for the Best Microfiction 2023 anthology

⚡ Our Bread, microfiction by Alcock reprinted at Flash Fiction Festival online (28 November 2019)