Hi all!
If you follow me on Twitter you may have noticed me tweeting and retweeting about an anthology I contributed to: Adverbially Challenged Volume Four.
The anthology contains one hundred flash fiction stories from one hundred authors. This has been put together by Christopher Fielden, who runs many writing challenges on his website that offer authors the chance to see their work in publication. Once he has received one hundred stories in a challenge, he puts them together in an anthology. Each anthology supports a charity, in the case of this one, First Story.
If you would like to find out more about Christopher Fielden and his writing challenges, I have linked his website:
https://www.christopherfielden.com
If you want something new to read and also want to support charity at the same time, I have linked the book below (it's available in ebook and paperback):
To find out more about First Story and the work they do, I have linked their website:
https://www.firststory.org.uk/about-us/
The cover and blurb of Adverbially Challenged Volume Four
The story that I wrote for the anthology is called Mother Cat, and it is based off of Mishka's Mum, Mallie. I always thought she looked exhausted with four rambunctious kittens so whenever my boyfriend and I visited Mishka we would try to distract the kittens for a bit so poor Mallie could get some rest.
It also didn't help that the kitten's aunt, Millie, would also bug Mallie for hours on end. Once all the kittens were adopted her owner got Mallie spayed so she wouldn't have any more litters. I just hope now she's enjoying the rest of her kitten-free days in peace.
Mallie with her kittens: Mishka, Poppy, Mabel and Chip
That's it for this week! I hope you will check out the writing challenges, anthology and First Story. It's a brilliant way to support charity and also add to your writing portfolio.