Tag Archives: Micro fiction

CCC223: No Goblins Today

Posted on February 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

Spindle-Legs called to Nimble-Fingers, “Come on, let’s hurry it. The swings are free, the goblins aren’t here today!” The two play-friends had just hitched themselves onto the high swings and were working them into an exhilarating arc, whooping and laughing … Continue reading →

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Intrigue

Posted on January 14, 2023 by crispina kemp

It was cryptic, the script which lay before me, written in an Elizabethan Secretarial Hand. By the spymaster himself? Could it be? It was well preserved; it must have been the best quality vellum, and first time used, not marred … Continue reading →

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CCC218: Waiting

Posted on January 12, 2023 by crispina kemp

The photographers lined the bank, standing just clear of the water, their humble identities lost amongst the pressing media reporters. For the waters of this lake had been steadily rising these past few days – and it wasn’t because of … Continue reading →

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CCC209: Guilty

Posted on November 10, 2022 by crispina kemp

Footsteps behind me Someone following Gaining on me I hasten I mustn’t be caught with what I’m carrying Clip-clop, slip-clop, the cobbles slippery with the wet leaves of autumn The creature in my arms struggles to be free Hush, my … Continue reading →

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CCC205: 10,000 Fairy Lights

Posted on October 13, 2022 by crispina kemp

There had been sightings, but none around here – they’d been mostly in the south. So imagine our astonishment when the field ahead of us lit up like 10,000 fairy lights. After two years of darkness, the sun had found … Continue reading →

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CCC204: My Wish

Posted on October 6, 2022 by crispina kemp

I had expected to be alone on that shore. It wasn’t that I was doing anything illegal. No drug smuggling, no digging up protected plants or stealing Little Tern eggs. I just didn’t want to be seen. I didn’t want … Continue reading →

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CCC193: And All the Land Was Tidy and Paved

Posted on July 21, 2022 by crispina kemp

It all began one hot summer. The grasses browned and crisped; people trod the dried grasses and rubbed them away. Next year the grasses tried to grow but…you know how it goes. Two hot and dry summers later, the parish … Continue reading →

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CCC191: Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven Days

Posted on July 7, 2022 by crispina kemp

One thousand days of walking, that’s what the story told. One thousand days from the west coast, where I was currently residing, to the east coast where I’d been sent to gather the shells. Yellow tourmaline shells, themselves the subject … Continue reading →

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CCC189: Changes

Posted on June 23, 2022 by crispina kemp

I was first born a stag and three hundred years I lived as he. But without a doe, or one of my kind, life paled and I was glad to change. I next became an eagle soaring high. Three hundred … Continue reading →

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Old World Charm

Posted on June 18, 2022 by crispina kemp

Lavinia stared at the email open on her tablet with mouth agape. She didn’t understand the rejection. The agency had commissioned her to photograph the award-winning picturesque village of Saxlingham. She had sent in fifty photos specifically chosen for “old … Continue reading →

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