NO Frantic Flash 4-5 November

We are up to our ears with the Children in Need Marathon
and demand for the FF is not that high (most are in CIN)
so we wl not hold the Frantic Flash on November 4-5

The next Frantic Flash will be held 3-4 December


AK

Seventh Quark Issue 4 Posted

I was shocked rigid by the extra postage cost under the Post Office's new charging system.

new system means "everything costs a lot more"

Worse, of course, is they don't like A4



Anyway all 7Qs have gone out (second class mail)

The costs of some to the US were £3:50 ($7) and that's just MADNESS

One envelope with 4 mags and 4 CiN books cost £11:50 ($22) to send

DONE! (Well, Almost)

Picked up 7Q4 from the printers this morning, all stapled and folded but they weren't trimmed, so I'm back there first thing and they should be going in the post tomorrow



Alex

Top 12 in Frantic Flash

Here are the top 12

TOP FIVE

Taking tea with the other woman       
China       
Waltzing Down Main Street       
Forgetting About Fudge       
A Quiet Drink       


The Next Seven


098 Safehouse             
097 The Strange Case of Jeremy Browne       
095 Hiraeth             
095 Roy            
093 Cash Corner   
093 A Faint Cold Fear         
089 Gin           
     


A decision will be made very shortly on the top 5.

Frantic Flash Prompts 2100 SUNDAY

Read all the prompts QUICKLY.
Now read them bottom to top.
Now close your eyes and remember them
Now read them again

Can you hear one prompt and its voice?



Start with a voice if you can.


PROMPTS



The Hosts of Rebecca

USURY

Sleeping With Fudge

RATIONING

Great Britain, Ha-Ha-Ha!

GULAG

The Idea of Home

PRUNE

I Love You, Miss Tavistock

REVEREND

Why Hoss Cartwright Never Got the Girl

CHEESE

Song of the Earth

MOON

Those Magnificent Girls & Their Sewing Machines

MOVIES

Rape of the Fair Country

MR BLUE

Wolves Eat Dogs

CHANCRE, MR PEPYS

Saturday Night Feature

RESCUE ME

A Faint Cold Fear

THE ICEMAN COMETH

Jeremy Browne's Guest

Frantic Flash Prompts, 1800 Sunday

Still not that many entries, so a great chance to win



PROMPTS


The Bastard Jones and His Bastard Cohorts

CHINA

Eleven Lucky Breakaways

CHECKMATE, Mrs Smith

How to Charm a Weasel

My Penis & I

The Hay-on-Wye Mafia

CALF

The Regina Monologues

Death in East Grinstead

Police, Popcorn, Pomegranate, Policy

BIRD, SAIL

Don't Worry, Dear. It's Been in Greece For Nineteen Years

Probably Not Benign

The Remarkable Battle With Basingstoke Colts

Courses For Horses

Cafe au Saint Germain-en-Laye

I Think She's Upstairs, But Don't Quote Me

German Kissing

Twenty-Four and Three-Quarters

Eloise Believes Different

Petticoats, Daisy-Chains, And Soft Summer Falling

0900 October 1st Frantic Flash Prompts

Here are the Frantic Flash Prompts for 0900 Sunday.

Remember you can use one or as many as you like.

TIP, try COMBINING prompts in unusual ways. My favourite technique
is simply to use any prompt in ":any old sentence" right at the start
but "finding a voice" then to simply cast around for a second
prompt that "answers" that opening.

You'd be amazed how often this triggers amazing connections
and genuinely fresh material.


Meanwhile, please email if you're "in" for 09:00

You have 75/80 Minutes

Alex


PROMPTS



They Shall Know Us By Our Velocities

Bloody Foreigners

The Ancestor's Tale is a Tail

An Inconvenient Truth

TRAMP

You Never Had It So Good

Black Rain

When Scots Were Irish

The Lost World of Frieze-Green

NO

Waltzing Down Main Street

Five Out of Seven in Guildford

A Bridge Not Far Enough

Song of the Earth

Howling at the Moon

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Chicken-shit

Bus to Malpas

The Importance on Not Being Earnest

Cheep!

Blessings, Bleedings, Songs, Leeches

CROUP

Taking Tea With the Other Woman