This tiny story is less than 300 words, a flash fiction. It’s a love story, and is sweet and kind and hopeful. It has stayed with me since I first read it back in 2015. But is the world ending or not?

As I have experimented with flash fiction I really wanted to include a flash here – my novella ‘Aerth’ contains many flash fictions and even some prose poems.

There are so many good examples of flash fiction, but this has stayed with me, and it still makes me smile.

First published online as 3rd prize winner in the Bath Inaugural Flash Fiction Award, 2015, and in print in To Carry Her Home, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2017. You can read it here