Some Boot Camp Flashes
Boot Camp Flashes have appeared widely on the internet as well as in print in QWF, Cadenza, InkPot, Literary Pot-Pourri, Geist (Canada) and Seventh Quark Literary Magazine.
Many have won competitions. In November 2005 Boot Campers and Others wrote 450 Flashes, most in a compressed twenty-seven hour period, in a charity fund-raiser for "Children in Need", raising more than £10,500.
13 of these stories appeared in Eclectica. 18 Stories appeared in an anthology from Leaf Books www.leafbooks.co.uk/ and can be purchased by contacting them, or Alex Keegan.
Smokelong
Interview With Cally Taylor
Hoover
Interview With Diana Forrester
Private Services
Alexandra Fox: A Deep Desire For Blue
Elspeth Graty: Jelly Babies
Louise Jackson: Red Flecks
Vanessa Gebbie: Bones
Lousie Jackson: Posessed
Three Blind Elephants
Eclectica
Mokana Childen's Home
Bomber
Science
Words & Silence
China
Learning by Rote (Blast Guest)
So Small and So Far Away (Blast Guest)
Paper Bird
Clicks, Eyes, Sparrows
Chantin's Place
Cull
Squinting Against the Sun
The Year of the Card Player
Killing Bulls
Geoff Says Farewell
The Undressing of Ursula
Ramirez (Blast Guest)
Billy Learns
A Very Modern Affair
Glove, Fist, Camera
Looney Tunes
Spatchcocked By Love
Three Flashes
The Clock Has Struck Thirteen
Footballers
Blue
Yellow, Evelyn, Fiona et al
Two Flashes
Fade Into Dust (Guest)
Two Flashes (Guest)
Night Classes
My Porcupine
Disappearing Acts
My Husband Goes to the Bar to Cry
He Slips, He Falls
What I Think About Making Love
Gas Gangrene
Getting to Hodginson's
The Song Says Keep Smiling
Making a Go
A Little Man
About Jose
www.eclectica.org/v8n4/feature.html 10 Stories
Three Flash Fictions
Down the Plughole
Plucked Pheasants
Her Cat
A Threnody
Python Pat
Literary Pot Pouri
Not About Her Father
Forty-Two
3:AM
You Must Have Lnown Ambrose
Playing Cards With Saddam
Alsop Review
Cow 7B
The Bastard William Williams
Four Flash Fictions
Prefabs, Colours
The Last Love Letter of Berwyn Philip Price
Better Just Go
Bus to Malpas, Dennis Potter
The Smell of Almond Polish
Lights
The Temporary Possession of Frank Smith
Mother, Questions
Yellow, Black, Red, Blue
Lunch, No Oysters
Blue Moon Review
Tanner Hop, Coyotes Interrupt Us
Jack Hancock's War
Mississippi Review
Ballistics
Archipelago
John Dee and Jack Carmen
Southern Ocean Review
The Mistress
The Man Who Learned to Love America
Sylvia Petter: Widow's Peak
Dirty Pictures
Sylvia Petter: The Ferris Wheel
Persistent Vegetative State
Sylvia Petter: No Man's Land
Vida Evelyn: Dressing Down
The Smell of Burning Plastic
Sylvia Petter: Bobbin Head
Diana Forrester: Private Services
Geri Borcz: A Willing Heart
Contraflow Reprint of $200 Prize-Winner
Lois Peterson: Boy Bouncing
David King: Who Will Look After the Roses?
Pink!
Sweeping
Polish Drains
Lois Peterson: But What Do I Know About Music?
Topless Beach
Wendy Ogden: An Old Farmhouse
There Was a Time
David King: Yesterday's Rat (ex?)
Marmalade Dear?
Cat's Eyes
Pink II
Chris Bleach: Tough
Chris Bleach: I Wasn't Expecting Zero
Circumstantial Evidence
Katherine Pirnie: Skinny Dipping
Dave Prescott: Let's Hear it For Norms
Megan's Law
Louis Malloy: Bash Street
David King: How Long Have You Been Sleeping With Freud? (ex-BC)
Hennesy Drives
Sam's Lake
Alexandra Fox: Lucy Glows
An Old Man Watching Football $300 Prize Winner Reprint
The Ghost in the Latrine
Samson and Dee Lilah
Rupert Merkin
JBWB (all £150 First Prizes)
Tom Conoboy: Perce's Girl
Vanessa Gebbie: The Time it Takes
Alexandra Fox: Tina Plays the Generation Game
John Ravenscroft: States of Matter
John Ravenscroft: Owls
JBWB Poetry
Caroline Davies: Living With Shadows First Prize £100
Story Cove ($1,000 First Prize)
John Ravenscroft: Walking Upside Down
East of the Web
John Ravenscroft: Fishing For Jasmine
John Ravenscroft: Watch With Mother
More Prize-Winners
John Ravenscroft: Fairy Story £150
John Ravenscroft: Crazy Gene Winner £200
John Ravenscroft: Watch With Mother Joint Winner £100
John Ravenscroft: Running Late Second Place £100
Various
Alexandra Fox: A Manhole Under the Hollyhocks
Alexandra Fox: The Hand that Whirls the Water
Alexandra Fox: The State of Being (Runner-Up: Scroll Down)
Alexandra Fox: Deep End Dining First Prize
Cadenza
Miguel Who Cuts Down Trees
Boot Camp Flashes have appeared widely on the internet as well as in print in QWF, Cadenza, InkPot, Literary Pot-Pourri, Geist (Canada) and Seventh Quark Literary Magazine.
Many have won competitions. In November 2005 Boot Campers and Others wrote 450 Flashes, most in a compressed twenty-seven hour period, in a charity fund-raiser for "Children in Need", raising more than £10,500.
13 of these stories appeared in Eclectica. 18 Stories appeared in an anthology from Leaf Books www.leafbooks.co.uk/ and can be purchased by contacting them, or Alex Keegan.
Smokelong
Interview With Cally Taylor
Hoover
Interview With Diana Forrester
Private Services
Alexandra Fox: A Deep Desire For Blue
Elspeth Graty: Jelly Babies
Louise Jackson: Red Flecks
Vanessa Gebbie: Bones
Lousie Jackson: Posessed
Three Blind Elephants
Eclectica
Mokana Childen's Home
Bomber
Science
Words & Silence
China
Learning by Rote (Blast Guest)
So Small and So Far Away (Blast Guest)
Paper Bird
Clicks, Eyes, Sparrows
Chantin's Place
Cull
Squinting Against the Sun
The Year of the Card Player
Killing Bulls
Geoff Says Farewell
The Undressing of Ursula
Ramirez (Blast Guest)
Billy Learns
A Very Modern Affair
Glove, Fist, Camera
Looney Tunes
Spatchcocked By Love
Three Flashes
The Clock Has Struck Thirteen
Footballers
Blue
Yellow, Evelyn, Fiona et al
Two Flashes
Fade Into Dust (Guest)
Two Flashes (Guest)
Night Classes
My Porcupine
Disappearing Acts
My Husband Goes to the Bar to Cry
He Slips, He Falls
What I Think About Making Love
Gas Gangrene
Getting to Hodginson's
The Song Says Keep Smiling
Making a Go
A Little Man
About Jose
www.eclectica.org/v8n4/feature.html 10 Stories
Three Flash Fictions
Down the Plughole
Plucked Pheasants
Her Cat
A Threnody
Python Pat
Literary Pot Pouri
Not About Her Father
Forty-Two
3:AM
You Must Have Lnown Ambrose
Playing Cards With Saddam
Alsop Review
Cow 7B
The Bastard William Williams
Four Flash Fictions
Prefabs, Colours
The Last Love Letter of Berwyn Philip Price
Better Just Go
Bus to Malpas, Dennis Potter
The Smell of Almond Polish
Lights
The Temporary Possession of Frank Smith
Mother, Questions
Yellow, Black, Red, Blue
Lunch, No Oysters
Blue Moon Review
Tanner Hop, Coyotes Interrupt Us
Jack Hancock's War
Mississippi Review
Ballistics
Archipelago
John Dee and Jack Carmen
Southern Ocean Review
The Mistress
The Man Who Learned to Love America
Sylvia Petter: Widow's Peak
Dirty Pictures
Sylvia Petter: The Ferris Wheel
Persistent Vegetative State
Sylvia Petter: No Man's Land
Vida Evelyn: Dressing Down
The Smell of Burning Plastic
Sylvia Petter: Bobbin Head
Diana Forrester: Private Services
Geri Borcz: A Willing Heart
Contraflow Reprint of $200 Prize-Winner
Lois Peterson: Boy Bouncing
David King: Who Will Look After the Roses?
Pink!
Sweeping
Polish Drains
Lois Peterson: But What Do I Know About Music?
Topless Beach
Wendy Ogden: An Old Farmhouse
There Was a Time
David King: Yesterday's Rat (ex?)
Marmalade Dear?
Cat's Eyes
Pink II
Chris Bleach: Tough
Chris Bleach: I Wasn't Expecting Zero
Circumstantial Evidence
Katherine Pirnie: Skinny Dipping
Dave Prescott: Let's Hear it For Norms
Megan's Law
Louis Malloy: Bash Street
David King: How Long Have You Been Sleeping With Freud? (ex-BC)
Hennesy Drives
Sam's Lake
Alexandra Fox: Lucy Glows
An Old Man Watching Football $300 Prize Winner Reprint
The Ghost in the Latrine
Samson and Dee Lilah
Rupert Merkin
JBWB (all £150 First Prizes)
Tom Conoboy: Perce's Girl
Vanessa Gebbie: The Time it Takes
Alexandra Fox: Tina Plays the Generation Game
John Ravenscroft: States of Matter
John Ravenscroft: Owls
JBWB Poetry
Caroline Davies: Living With Shadows First Prize £100
Story Cove ($1,000 First Prize)
John Ravenscroft: Walking Upside Down
East of the Web
John Ravenscroft: Fishing For Jasmine
John Ravenscroft: Watch With Mother
More Prize-Winners
John Ravenscroft: Fairy Story £150
John Ravenscroft: Crazy Gene Winner £200
John Ravenscroft: Watch With Mother Joint Winner £100
John Ravenscroft: Running Late Second Place £100
Various
Alexandra Fox: A Manhole Under the Hollyhocks
Alexandra Fox: The Hand that Whirls the Water
Alexandra Fox: The State of Being (Runner-Up: Scroll Down)
Alexandra Fox: Deep End Dining First Prize
Cadenza
Miguel Who Cuts Down Trees
