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Lab Rats.
Flash Fiction

Lab Rats.

Flash Fiction. I’m still exploring my family photographs and inventing peculiar
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Ken Preston
Can't You Hear Me?
Short Stories

Can't You Hear Me?

‘I thought you weren’t going to come,’ she said. He said
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Ken Preston
Moving On.
Flash Fiction

Moving On.

It’s been a manic few days over here in Preston Towers.
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Ken Preston
Family Holidays.
Short Stories

Family Holidays.

A Short Story. We’ve all got photographs of family holidays. Children
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Ken Preston
You're My Sex Bomb.
Flash Fiction

You're My Sex Bomb.

She likes Tom Jones, says he’s retro. But then she wanders
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Ken Preston
He's Not Right in the Head.
Flash Fiction

He's Not Right in the Head.

I suppose you could think of this short story as the prequel
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Ken Preston
Barnes and Clarke.
Flash Fiction

Barnes and Clarke.

Flash Fiction. I decided to mash two photographs together and see what
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Ken Preston
Chordae Tendineae.
Short Stories and Serials

Chordae Tendineae.

In a break from our usual programming, I'm publishing a
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Ken Preston
Standin theer leyke cheese at fourpence.
Flash Fiction

Standin theer leyke cheese at fourpence.

Flash Fiction. Another photograph of someone I don’t know. Anybody who
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Ken Preston
Number Five.
Flash Fiction

Number Five.

Flash Fiction. Her eyes tempt him. He imagines those eyes gazing at
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Ken Preston
Lorraine.
Flash Fiction

Lorraine.

A Short Story. His name was scrawled on the envelope. He ripped
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Ken Preston
Freshly Butchered
Flash Fiction

Freshly Butchered

Here is the third in my series of fifty-word stories based
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Ken Preston
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