The Nativity

Nicole J Simms/ December 14, 2015/ Published Short Stories/ 0 comments

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‘The Nativity’ is a 1987-word Christmas horror. I originally wrote this story for the Spinetinglers 2014 Christmas competition. However, I wasn’t successful, so I decided to return the story to my editing pile. Earlier in 2015, I found a submission call for a Christmas horror story. It felt like the perfect place for my story, so after months of editing,

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Not so Fake After All

Nicole J Simms/ April 21, 2015/ Published Short Stories/ 0 comments

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‘Not so Fake After All’ is a 414-word flash fiction. I wrote this story for one of my writing group assignments. For the assignment, we had to write a story about a phony psychic having a real paranormal experience. At first I hadn’t planned to submit the story. I was going to use it as a starting point for a

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The Snowflakes of Time

Nicole J Simms/ March 26, 2015/ Published Short Stories/ 0 comments

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‘The Snowflakes of Time’ is a 352-word flash fiction. I wrote this story for the Firewords Quarterly Issue 4 winter theme submission call. The story or poem had to include or be inspired by the sentence: “When the snow finally stopped falling…” For my story, I decided to link the snow with the passing of time, and that’s how I

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You Shall be Mine

Nicole J Simms/ February 16, 2015/ Published Short Stories/ 0 comments

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‘You Shall be Mine’ is a story that I wrote for one of my writing group assignments. I had originally titled the story ‘3 minutes to live’. For the assignment, we had to write a story about a character receiving anonymous emails while at work, and when the character responds to the emails the response surprises them. Due to my

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