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I have 109 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 77825 times
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Nicholas Flower is the author of the short story collections So Long! Godspeed! So Long! and Smiling I Blame TV, the essay The URINE-8 Experiment, and the novel The Nuclear Powered Heart. He is currently editing and annotating Herman Henschel Koprowsky’s Encyclopaedia of Imagined Objects and preparing a biographical study of famed Norfolk philanthropist Charles Philip Havelock III. He lives in Norwich with his wife and daughter.
He also blogs here,where a lot of his fiction either starts off or ends up.
My stories
please take me with you someplace better than this
Jerry Mandible stopped the lawnmower with a sigh and, shielding his eyes from the glare of the sun with one hand, turned back to look at his bedroom window.
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the hot air balloon
I looked out of the office window and saw the hot air balloon. “Hey look at that hot air balloon,” I said, which met a unanimous silence.
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bad experience in the underpass
The group of youths encircled me, their bizarre collective deformities creating this lumbering gait, edging heavily back on forth on in-turned feet.
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september 11, by default
The head fireman took his crew to one side and rubbed his brow with paradoxes of melancholy vigour. Everybody could smell the flames but somehow it seemed better to await instruction.
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the television romance
THE TELEVISION ROMANCE
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