The Flash Fiction Open has been quite successful. I've identified twenty responses to the challenge here: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. (If I've missed one, please let me know!) I've pulled together the stories here as links. I'm contemplating doing an electronic (or physical) chapbook, but hopefully I'll lie down and get over that impulse to publish. In the mean time, since this would make a very...

martyn44 (author of The Good and Faithful Servant , in The Phantom Queen Awakes ) writes: Many years ago I was in the Reference section of Acklam branch library (as I often was). I put aside Colonel Churchward’s wonderful farrago concerning the ‘lost continent’ of Mu and picked up a book on folklore. Shortly afterwards I was reading about Ori and Nori, Oin and Gloin. Having been recently...

martyn44 (author of The Good and Faithful Servant , in The Phantom Queen Awakes ) writes: Many years ago I was in the Reference section of Acklam branch library (as I often was). I put aside Colonel Churchward’s wonderful farrago concerning the ‘lost continent’ of Mu and picked up a book on folklore. Shortly afterwards I was reading about Ori and Nori, Oin and Gloin. Having been recently...

martyn44 (author of The Good and Faithful Servant , in The Phantom Queen Awakes ) writes: Many years ago I was in the Reference section of Acklam branch library (as I often was). I put aside Colonel Churchward’s wonderful farrago concerning the ‘lost continent’ of Mu and picked up a book on folklore. Shortly afterwards I was reading about Ori and Nori, Oin and Gloin. Having been recently...

martyn44 (author of The Good and Faithful Servant , in The Phantom Queen Awakes ) writes: When I saw Mark & Amanda requesting submissions for ‘The Phantom Queen Awakes’, I immediately did a little research on the Phantom Queen (ie, I googled ‘Morrigan’). Now that is an interesting lady, a portmanteau goddess as so many of the old ones of these islands are, a prototype of the love you to...

martyn44 (author of The Good and Faithful Servant , in The Phantom Queen Awakes ) writes: When I saw Mark & Amanda requesting submissions for ‘The Phantom Queen Awakes’, I immediately did a little research on the Phantom Queen (ie, I googled ‘Morrigan’). Now that is an interesting lady, a portmanteau goddess as so many of the old ones of these islands are, a prototype of the love you to...