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Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Shorts’ Category

Fillin’ a Hole

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

(to the tune of The Hole in the Ground with apologies to Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks and Bernard Cribbins) There I was, a-fillin’ this ‘ole ‘Ole in the ground, so big & sort o’ round it was And there was I, fillin’ it full It was flat at the bottom and the […]

Red Phone Box Stories Away

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

I set out to write a Red Phone Box story back in June but couldn’t find its middle.  So I let it stew for awhile.  Yesterday I found the middle and got the first draft together.  It was 50% too long but I’ve edited down worse miscreant short stories to length (pretty much every Dirk […]

Short Short Fiction: Gothic Bite

Friday, August 24th, 2007

She sleeps, bosom slowly heaving. Moonlight casts a strange hue through swirling curtains. From nowhere the irregular shade comes to brush her hair aside. Her neck revealed. Pale skin greets sharp ivory teeth. She is his.

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