Steven Lemprière

“The Last Laugh” by @StevenLempriere.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting

Published today by @paragraphplanet.bsky.social

Switched Blade | Literary Garage

Start your Wednesday with this flash from
@stevenlempriere.bsky.social that's very noir, sweaty, close-to-the-bone (with a staccato pace that's hard to beat).

If you like contemporary hard-boiled crime stories, this one's for you:
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#flash #fiction #hardboiled

Never slow in preparing sloe gin. One of this season’s highlights. Fast forward to Christmas and a sloe gin and tonic.

Switched Blade | Literary Garage

Published today by @literarygarage.bsky.social

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It was a pleasurable and rewarding experience both in submitting to this journal, and the subsequent follow-up with the editor. Thanks KM.

Thanks G.R. LeBlanc.

September 15th - Issue 2 Welcome to this issue of The Hoolet’s Nook . Each piece gathered here reflects the spirit of what we hope the journal continues to be—a space for stories and poems that sparkle, resonate, and...

We're all aflutter! Our new issue has landed—featuring #microfiction and #poetry by: 

@adelegallogly.bsky.social
@loricramerwriter.bsky.social
@feistybluegecko.bsky.social
@arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social
@stevenlempriere.bsky.social & many more!🦉❣️
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#quickreads

Inanimate Objects, by Steven Lemprière Outings with grandad, just me and him, are fun; today, the Natural History Museum. He calls it the dead zoo. It’s kind of true, what with dinosaur skeletons, Neanderthal bones, stuffed animals and...

Published today by Friday Flash Fiction.

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Today we have a poignant story from author Steven Lemprière. Thank you @stevenlempriere.bsky.social, looks like other people enjoyed it too.

“Checkmate” by @StevenLempriere.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com #writing

@paragraphplanet.bsky.social today published my story, Checkmate.

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There’s stupid, and there’s stupid,and there’s stupid, …

You could continue on around Trump’s cabinet table and it’s a label that fits all seated.

Trump’s new motto as seen on his new MAGA merch:

‘Trump was right about everything’

Not even original

See Mussolini’s motto below:

“Mussolini ha sempre ragione”

= Mussolini is always right.

For when two feet becomes a prison yard.

JD? What’s that short for, Idiot?

Didn’t that Murkkan drive on the wrong side of the road?

I realise that, just trying to be fecetious.

And they're driving on the wrong side of the road.

Years!!!!

The small bay I brought from Ireland fifteen ears ago when we bought the house has morphed into a triffid.

Published today.

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They used goat meat, the Milky Bar Kid.

STEVEN LEMPRIÈRE: Rough and Tumble Wexford summers. Cousins. Some removed, others should be. A bruising stick-and-ball game settles scores. Red Lemonade, 99s, ice-cream wafers, crisps and slap-up feeds. Ravenous teams jostle, devour…

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Published today.

Dan, do you think he’s trying to Neidle you?

Big, Beautiful Numbers.

Published by 50 Give or Take

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Alone Together, by Steven Lemprière Her once lithe frame, now a shrunken sarcophagus laden with heartbreak, bears witness to the life it once embodied. Discarded soiled panties chronicle an event ciphered in blood-red dots, a...

Published by Friday Flash Fiction

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Three’s Company — a Deadly Sin by Steven Lemprière Three’s Company by Steven Lemprière Sophie took the last of her husband from the freezer. A muscle that should, like other hard-working cuts of flesh, become mouth-wateringly tender when slowly bra…

Published today by Punk Noir Magazine

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Time Flies, by Steven Lemprière Time travel. The subject of science fiction. But for Günter, it was something he often undertook, journeying to far-flung destinations when seeking to add to his collection. A horophile with...

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The hand of ex spin doctor for the Tories, Robbie Gibb. Time Starmer focused and unpicked some seriously undemocratic threads out our institutions, woven in there by some seriously bad political actors.
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