I’m delighted to have a piece of flash fiction called ‘Besieged’ published by the excellent CafeLit Magazine. A young girl finds herself caught between two elemental forces…
Read it here.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Image courtesy of Natural Atlas.*
Matthew Richardson is a writer of short stories. His work has featured in Gold Dust magazine, Literally Stories, Near to the Knuckle, McStorytellers, Penny Shorts, Soft Cartel, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, and Shooter magazine. He is a doctoral student at the University of Dundee, a lucky husband, and a proud father.
Not necessarily in that order.
Matthew Richardson 
Great story, Matthew. Very clever!
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Thanks Chris. Much appreciated!
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Brilliant immersive scene-setting 🙂 Congratulations!
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Thanks Tom!
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Another great tale.
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Thanks Goff. I’m just enjoying your latest haiku!
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Great story read.
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This is how it should be done. A gripping, child-centred tale
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Thanks John. That means a lot!
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Another great story, Matthew. Your writing scares me, man.
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Cheers Peter, much appreciated. I’ll definitely take that as a compliment rather than a gentle suggestion to seek counselling!
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Another superb foray into the darkness.
Congratulations! So we’ll deserved. You are building up the makings of a book of your collected published works.
I couldn’t find the email with this story, so I had to Google your site. Thus, I don’t seem to be able to “like” this story. But I emphatically LIKE this story!
Cheers!
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And regret that I didn’t catch the incorrect autocorrect! Why is we’ll the preferred first choice?
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Sounds dam interesting!
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Thanks!
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