This anthology, which links voice recordings of the short stories and poems directly to the text on the page, is due out in late April. Despite being very simple, this application of the technique may be a world first and has implications for the delivery of essential information to populations whose reading skills are not as perfect as the material often requires. There’s more here at Readalongreads. Continue reading ‘Let Me Tell You a Story’
Written for Every Day Fiction’s one-time invitational. Photo credit: adapted from Polaris the north star by pakpolaris-d34x4z1 via Google images. Continue reading ‘North Star’
Control was a competition piece and reached the finals of its group. MashStories have voiced it and posted the audio on Soundcloud. I don’t know if the choice of voice artist was coincidental but she is appropriately British and does a jolly good job! Continue reading ‘Control’ now on SoundCloud via MashStories
Five Things That Are True and Six That Are Not’ Lascaux Flash competition 17/03/14; 249 words Continue reading Five Things That Are True and Six That Are Not – audio
‘Frozen Fireworks’, Readwave, February 6th, 2014. The last real day is bright and brilliant with a sky full of clotted clouds that tumble along like cream puffs in the thickening air. When the storms break, they cast scaled and feathered flying things down onto the sand, and the sand begins to swim like wet concrete around them. 292 words Continue reading Frozen Fireworks – audio
“On a frozen beach, brown waves thundering under a gritty pier and a grittier sky, God got his own back and I burst, sparkling, into life.” First published by Full of Crow, October 2012. 699 words image (c)conboy-hill 2014 Continue reading ‘The Wild Rose and the China Doll’ – audio
‘People didn’t lose their souls, they had them confiscated for sinning. So what sin did you have to commit to become a dance-floor donkey?’ 249 words. Continue reading ‘Doomcha Doof’ – audio
When the spirits dance, you have to dodge out of the way and cover your head so they don’t hiss sharp into your ears or quick-grab your tongue. Mostly though, you have to keep your eyes open … Lascaux Flash Competition, March 6th 2013. Also in FlashFlood, April 19th, 2013. 245 words Continue reading ‘All the Birthdays’ – audio
‘In the walls of buildings, between the splinters of wood and the specks of brick dust, souls huddle and stretch by turns, waiting for their time to come. The Breathing of Souls In the walls of buildings, between the splinters of wood and the specks of brick dust, souls trapped by the circumstance of material change, huddle and stretch by turns; making space to breathe, wearing down the solid things that keep them there, and waiting for their time to come. When it does and when, in the physical world liquids harden and become unyielding; in the metaphysical, the warp and … Continue reading The Breathing of Souls
Dr Suzanne Conboy-Hill 