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Stories by Emily Macdonald
Official Writing Portfolio
PUBLISHED STORIES
The stories here have all been published on line or in print anthologies. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Lambing, Shearing, Branding, Bath Flash Fiction Festival Anthology, Dec 2023
Flash Fiction
Clearing the Sea Mist, West Word Prize, Shortlist,
Jan 2024
Short Story Photo by deanna alys on Unsplash
Postcard from Portugal
Retreat West Prize
Shortlisted
In print anthology, Swan Song
due
Micro Fiction, in Print Anthology, Swan Song
Paragraph Planet, micro, (75 words)
Mayflower Song
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Wade and other Myths, Legends and Fairytales, Printed Anthology, Ellipsis Zine
November, 2022
DUM VIXI TACUI MORTUA DULCE CANO
Flash Fiction, Crow & Cross Keys
Sept, 2022
Kissing in a Bottle Green Jaguar XJ6, Micro Fiction, Fairfield Scribes (and in my collection Wheel Spin & Traction)
October 2022
Hangar Straight, Fictive Dream (and in my collection Wheel Spin & Traction)
September 2022
Pumping at Piha, Free Flash Fiction
September, 2022
The Sun Still Insists Upon Rising,
Free Flash Fiction
June 2023
One Little Apple Came Tumbling Down, Roi Fainéant Press
June, 2023
Diorama of a Better Little Life
Retreat West, Short List Micro Competition. Theme: Shrink
(This story is looking for a new home as the Retreat West site has sadly been taken down)
June 2023
ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND A BLUE FIAT STRADA
ELLIPSIS ZINE
Flash Fiction
8th July 2022
SPARKING A REVOLUTION
Amibidextrous Bloodhound Press, Unbroken Journal
Flash Fiction
July 7th 2022
Plucky Backpackers in the Lynmouth Flood
The Phare
Flash Fiction
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June 2022
You see a bear..
Paragraph Planet
75 word Micro
25th June, 2022
WHEN THE SCHOOL BELL RINGS GIVING REPRIEVE FROM THE PLAYGROUND GOSSIP
National Flash Fiction Day
June 2022
Chickens and Ducks
National Flash Fiction Day
June, 2022
Helping The Words Go Down
National Flash Fiction Day
June 2022
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
National Flash Fiction Day
June, 2022
WAYS I CAN BECOME FAMOUS IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
National Flash Fiction Day
June 2022
Improvisation
Flash Fiction (music theme)
Syncopation Literary Journal
June 2022
Disenchantment in Three Recipes
RETREAT WEST Runner-Up - Flash Themed Contest (Forest)
This story is due to be re-published soon by Raw Lit
June 2022
Cashing up with Beryl
Paragraph Planet
5th June 2022
DELRAILMENT
VIRTUAL ZINE (This story is looking for a new home as the Virtual Zine site has sadly closed)
May 2022
Twelve Etudes
Writers Playground, 4th Place
Short Story Competition - time bound with criteria
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May 2022
The Complaint of the Zalto Crystal Wine Glass,
Bright Flash Literary Review
April 2022
FORGET ME NOT YOU DOUBLE HEADED TWO FACED PRINCESS
GLOPE SOUP Micro Competition Finalist
Theme - yellow
March 2022
The Outhouse at Port Waikato
Reflex Fiction
Longlisted
Flash Fiction
(This story is looking for a new home as the Reflex Fiction site has sadly closed)
Feb 2022
The Agnes Riley Memorial Garden,
Virtual Zine
Creative Non-fiction
(This story is looking for a new home as the Virtual Zine site has sadly closed)
October 2021
Aircooled VW Baja
Runner Up
Retreat West
Flash Fiction Competition Theme Echo
(the Retreat West site has sadly closed by this story is available in my collection Wheel Spin & Traction)
December 2021
Where the Spiders Were, Hammond House
Shortlisted, Short Story
Theme: Stardust
Feb/March 2022
Casting for Bigger Fish in the Sea,
Globe Soup Micro Competition
Finalist
Theme: Envy
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August 2021
Working From Home, Globe Soup
Finalist
Micro Competition, Theme: Sloth
July 2021
Regifting
Winner, Micro Competition,
Theme:Bloom
Retreat West
(This story is looking for a new home as the Retreat West site has sadly closed)
July 2021
Stopping The Morris Traveller,
Reflex Fiction
Flash Fiction
(Reflex Fiction has sadly closed down but this story is included in my collection Wheel Spin & Traction)
May 2021
The Stickiness of Ice Rings, Reflex Fiction
(This story is looking for a new home as the Reflex site has sadly been taken down)
May 2021
Ford Impala, A Car for Grown Men,
Reflex Fiction
Flash Fiction
(The Reflex site has sadly closed but this story is published in my collection Wheel Spin & Traction)
April 2021
Big Boys Don't Cry,
Globe Soup
Winner 7 day Short Story writing challenge
Genre Crime
Feb 2021
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