The event at Turanga for National Flash Fiction Day on Saturday 22nd June went well. I read my winning South Island Writers flash, "Family Day Trip," and my long-listed micro-fiction, "My Father, the Accountant."
The standard this year was incredibly high. I was especially in awe of the junior winners' incredible stories. You can find the winning stories here. http://www.flash-frontier.com/nffd2019adult/ My Father, the Accountant Dad taught me insects have six legs, a human foot twenty-six bones, and it takes four minutes to boil the perfect egg. Every Sunday Dad went to church, sang three hymns, listened to a fifteen-minute sermon and partook of the body and blood along with the fifty-strong congregation. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, he prayed for forgiveness. He woke twice a night, petrified. Back as an eighteen-year-old pilot in the bomber’s cockpit. Searchlights crisscrossing the sky. Tracer bullets whizzing past. Ear-splitting canon shells exploding above. The inferno called Dresden burning below. One hundred thousand souls lost.
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