Introduction

Hello, my name is Tom Ashton.
I'm a third year Creative Writing student, co-head editor of the creative writing magazine 'The Writer's Quibble' and an aspiring author.
Mostly, I write transgressive fiction with elements of dark humour but i've also been known to write horror, thriller and fantasy. I'm also technically a published poet.
Furthermore, I recently a received a 'First' for a radio script I wrote, which has encouraged me to experiment in different areas.
On this blog you can expect to find my opinion columns, essays and reports as well as poetry and lots of prose.

Please leave me some feedback, in the comment boxes at bottom of each article as it is crucial to me as a writer and therefore greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Tom Ashton

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Micro Fictions by Tom Ashton (Prose)


1.
As he gazed out of his window, over the sloping fields of sheer desolation, he conceded that he was the last mortal living. An icy chill preceded the knock at his door. 

2.
He stumbled through the street labyrinth, without the grace of an alley cat but, with the fading sounds of snatching claws, wearing a Cheshire's grin. He should focus on the Black Cat, crossing the path ahead, ready with a handful of bloodied razors.


3.
As I gazed out at my empire; the glittering lights and blinking windows, I heard the metallic click and his ominous drone; ‘Convince me sir, why should the rude, rich or poor, be allowed to continue when good manners cost nothing?’
‘I’m sorry,’ I replied coolly, ‘I didn’t hear you knock.’




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