{"id":1108,"date":"2011-03-10T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?page_id=1108"},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T17:35:53","slug":"flash-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?page_id=1108","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I was part of a group of writers who tried to write regular flash (very short &#8211; under 1000 words) fiction every week. We collected the best of the Friday Flash Fiction output in a little book called Illuminations, which we sold for charity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddtwoout.co.uk\/buybooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can still buy it at Odd Two Out<\/a> &#8211; but I&#8217;ve put some of the stories up here for old time&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>I later expanded a number of these stories into longer pieces of fiction which have been published in a variety of magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Over time I&#8217;ll also be adding the &#8220;From Turkey City&#8221; pieces that I&#8217;ve written for <em>Focus<\/em> magazine, the BSFA&#8217;s magazine for writers. In these I take the common errors that writers make identified by the Turkey City Lexicon and try to illustrate them with short fantasy\/sf stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I was part of a group of writers who tried to write regular flash (very short &#8211; under 1000 words) fiction every week. We collected the best of the Friday Flash Fiction output in a little book called Illuminations, which we sold for charity. You can still buy it at Odd Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1335,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-posts.php","meta":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P27AP7-hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions\/2654"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}