E K Macdonald

Our Trash Family Gallery has some new additions. Check out our Preloved Stories contributors - their words are coming tomorrow!

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We're tempting you before the Preloved Stories issue launches on the 28th 🦝

@ekmacdonald.bsky.social gives us Reg, a character in crisis, wondering if he can change in time while a storm rages

@lousie-w.bsky.social shows us a young girl torn by the loss of the best person in her life, and a hen

Stunner

Woohoo

"I’m thinking I got the Ray Liottas like from Goodfellas when he’s coked to the eyeballs, truly fucked up, knowing shit’s gonna hit now he’s under the eyes of the feds, the buzzing in my ears the hover copter tracking my moves inch for inch" @ekmacdonald.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Thank you @MrBullBull. So happy to see this story, started in a @mattkendrick.bsky.social course, out there.

Emily Macdonald: Waiting for a real da Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose 2025 Short List The seagull cruises the breeze, high above the blue and green of Cardigan Bay. The sea is tipped with white ruffles, inked with shadow, edged by the...

My shortlisted story in the Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose Competition, At the Bay is published today: atthebay.org/emily-macdon...

Thank you so much Dan.

Thank you so much Laura @fictivedream.bsky.social

Thank you so much Dan.

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

Yay! So happy to be part of Micro Madness.

Congratulations Joyce. So delighted for you.

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

Thanks so much Steven

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-...

Wouldn’t have got there without you

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...

If you haven't yet done a course with Matt Kendrick, you're missing a great joy.

Woohoo!

Thanks FFF!

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

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#flashfiction
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Thanks Ian!

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

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

Coming soon! Out 13th November, flash fiction collection of driving related stories with Alien Buddah Press.

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

Love it. Katherine Mansfield for the 21st Century.

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...

Hellooo. I’m here