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E K Macdonald

@ekmacdonald.bsky.social

Writer, flash fiction, short stories. Wheel Spin and Traction, Flash collection out 13th Nov. Words in Fictive Dream, Reflex Fiction. Lucent Dreaming, Ellipsis Zine. Shortlisted Bath Short Story Award. macdonaldek11.com

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Thank you so much Dan.

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Thank you so much Laura @fictivedream.bsky.social

25.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Thank you so much Dan.

15.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @freeflashfiction.bsky.social and judge @sagreene1.bsky.social a story prompted by these hot dry days

15.07.2025 09:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yay! So happy to be part of Micro Madness.

12.06.2025 06:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Joyce. So delighted for you.

10.06.2025 21:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My contributor copy arrived today. It's beautiful. Can't wait to dive in.

09.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much Steven

30.05.2025 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Short Story: Elementary Dying but for Marylou, by Emily Macdonald - TSS Publishing First time I die it’s Anzac Day and a chill has come into the air. Marylou is wearing one of those hair bands that puts fluff balls over her ears. This annoys me, not just because they look real stupi...

Yay! Story published today at the wonderful TSS. This one started on Matt Kendrick's brilliant Go with the Flow course. theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...

30.05.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wouldn’t have got there without you

16.02.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Collect by Emily Macdonald Max collects bugs. Crickets, cicadas, stick insects, one golden Weta. Rae helps him to catch moths and butterflies, North Island Lichen, Monarchs, Common Coppers and Long-Tailed Blues. Max whispers ap...

Story published today. Thanks @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the expert beta reading and advice. gastropodalitmag.wixsite.com/main/post/co...

16.02.2025 18:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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If you haven't yet done a course with Matt Kendrick, you're missing a great joy.

26.01.2025 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Woohoo!

18.01.2025 11:39 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks FFF!

21.08.2024 18:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted: FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE – Free Flash Fiction One   I dream you bend your head towards me, and our lips briefly touch before we hear the key in the lock, the bellowed, ‘I’m home’ from below.   Two   I have the fleeing dream where I’m like a roadr...

As chosen by Judge Emma Phillips -
@emmapwrites.bsky.social

FFF Competition Twenty-Two Shortlisted:

FOUR OF THESE FIVE DREAMS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE
by
Emily Macdonald
@ekmacdonald.bsky.social

macdonaldek11.com

#flashfiction
#writingcompetitions

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11.07.2024 08:28 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks Ian!

03.04.2024 11:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Check this out. Fab mag, fab issue including my story ‘Pink’

04.02.2024 20:08 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks so much. It's already up on Amazon. Yay!

23.10.2023 14:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coming soon! Out 13th November, flash fiction collection of driving related stories with Alien Buddah Press.

22.10.2023 09:09 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Freebies Over the last few weeks, my health has decided to explore a new dimension. Which is the most positive way I can find of saying it has tumbled over another cliff. It isn’t worse necessarily just diff...

My October newsletter is full of freebies for the writing community - example story lists, a character creator template, a story planner, a geeky submissions tracker spreadsheet... Hopefully some useful stuff for you all.

PS - very grateful for re-posts to spread the word!

#Flashfiction #writers

02.10.2023 09:28 — 👍 100    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 15

Love it. Katherine Mansfield for the 21st Century.

28.09.2023 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm delighted to be included in the 1st issue of @proppencil.bsky.social in great company. Thank you @nivenaudrey.bsky.social thepropellingpencil.com/laundry-by-e...

19.09.2023 10:12 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hellooo. I’m here

06.09.2023 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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