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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • An interview with Adrian Graham

    Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 18:01 in interview, short story, flash fiction

    In my last blog I asked if flash fiction was a joke. Typical me I was just trying to stir things up and see what everyone thinks. I also sent a copy to a writer who specialises in flash fiction and we had a wee talk about it. (Okay, not so much a tal...

  • Is flash fiction a joke?

    Posted on Sunday August 31st, 2008 at 18:01 in short story, flash fiction

    The thoughts we can understand are very little thoughts... – Jerome K. JeromeI don't write flash fiction. Okay, I've written two stories that you could call flash fiction and that's it. I even had one of them published so there. But their brevity w...

  • The untimely death of the short story

    Posted on Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 at 06:23 in short story, flash fiction

    There are certain questions that refuse to go away, questions like: But why do you love me? Do aliens really exist? Did you just fart? and Is the short story dead?There does seem to be a growing attitude that the short story is something an author mo...