Tag: short story

• Mrs Badger – A Winter Flash Fiction Portrait of Isolation and Irritation

  

  Step inside the smoky warmth of a winter cottage and meet Mrs Badger, a fiercely stubborn, wonderfully irritable character battling cold weather, smart meters, and the frustrations of modern life. This flash fiction portrait blends humour, grit, and atmosphere in a sharply drawn glimpse of rural isolation.

  Alison Little

  19.12.2025

  Arts and Culture, Lifestyle

  atmospheric writing, character portrait, flash fiction, modern domestic fiction, rural life, short story, winter fiction

• Love of the Second Hand

  

  A chance visit to a charity bookshop on Liverpool’s Smithdown Road stirs childhood memories of Arabian Nights, cassette tapes, and the magic of being read to. When a half-heard song leads to an unexpected conversation with a stranger, books become a bridge between generations—parenthood, music, feminism, and nostalgia quietly intertwining. Love of the Second Hand…

  Alison Little

  19.12.2025

  Arts and Culture, Lifestyle, Liverpool

  Bookshop stories, Chance encounters, flash fiction, Literary fiction, Liverpool writing, Love of reading, Nostalgic writing, Parenting and books, Second-hand books, short story