Squidge's Scribbles

Delighted to announce that my short story, Cirque de la Vie, has been placed as a runner up in the Retreat West quarterly circus themed com...

Image from Flash Gordon Returns! My big blonde crush Friday July 31 2020, 12.01am, The Times Flash! Ah-aaah!  Yes, I think the film's ba...

Wrote this for the 'Midsummer Madness' themed monthly competition in the Den of Writers. ..it was chosen as winner. (I get to set Ju...

No, I didn't know there was one either! But there is, led by First Story. You can find out more about it here  , but essentially it aims...

Late posting this - life seems to be running away with me rather at the moment, but I'm working on the view that it's better late th...

We had a full house for NIBS this week, our first meeting of 2018! So it seemed only appropriate to have a theme of 'First' for the...

Did you know that: *  According to  Shelter , 65,000 families will be homeless this Christmas. * At least one more family becomes homele...

I've an excuse for being a bit quiet on the blog recently - the next round of edits arrived for Kingstone , so I've been working thr...

Last night, we had our monthly NIBS meeting. I chose to take the paint sample cards again as we'd had fun with them in the past and afte...

Today, I'm cheating a bit here, because  The Letter is being published over on the Randoms' website, not here on the Scribbles, to ...

Just before Christmas, Something Rich and Strange  was published, the second anthology from the Random Writers. It's been well receive...

The big day completely passed me by... no card, co cake, no celebration of any kind. Ooops. Poor Scribbles. Because - can you believe it...

Today is National Flash Fiction Day . There are loads of great flash pieces going up on the internet throughout the day - as well as speci...

It's going up a little later than I planned - sorry! - but here's the story from the Challenge Me post. Family Squidge picked their...

It's a while since I've done one of these, but I feel the need for something to write other than the WIP. Maybe it's because i...

Just a little piece of flash, created when I selected a sixpence, shell and champagne cork from prompt items used for an exercise at a NIBS ...

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that I've recently added an extra page to the Scribbles. It's called, unoriginally, free f...

Haven't posted much fiction for a while but last month, I had a go at The Word Cloud monthly competition for the first time in months. ...

I have been told that my writing in the past has been 'too nice'. By that, I don't mean that nothing bad ever happens - far fr...

This little bit of flash is my 'homework' for NIBS next week: we were challenged to find a painting with at least one person in it a...