I regularly get asked about the writing that's keeping me away from Minecraft and, on the off chance that any of you are genuinely interested (as opposed to being very nice and polite people who are just trying to make me feel good ), I thought I'd share this;

amwriting.org have published a short story (flash fiction) of mine, titled "The Swordsman." If anyone would like to give it a read (it's only 1,000 words or so), you can find it here. [Good or bad] Feedback, either here or on amwriting.org, would be much appreciated.

I read it twice - the second time replacing the word 'sword' with 'willy'. It's excellent either way.

Kudos!

Does he control the willy, or does the willy control him?

'He wielded the longwilly one handed, though it was half again as big as the willy Gared held' is a personal favourite.

I'm sure I should be offended at what your doing to my work...

wow, thats fantastic, hope I can write half has good as that

I'm gonna sit down and read it as soon as I have some spare time, mate. Can't speak for everyone else, but as a fellow writer, I am genuinely interested in what you're writing and how it's going.

All this talk about switching words reminds me of when I did the exact same thing reading the Harry Potter books. Replacing the word Wand with Willy. Turns into a erotic novel.

Thank you ninja, I look forward to your opinion Kahr, and * exaggerated eye roll* Zoidberg.

"Perhaps it was the willy that saw the opening, Gared was not certain."

Good work Bea!

Thanks to Jig, I ended up reading it as willy.
Regardless, it was a great read! Good work!

I've read your story, and blatantly avoided the silly word-games of your previous readers.

I like it, beags. A little too short for me, as I didn't really feel like I got to know the characters, but with more of that, you're bound to succeed. Your story pretty much has what I like about stories; a fast pace, a dark demon (the cursed sword in this case) and an unsettling ending. Keep up the good writing, beags. I am looking forward to reading your current work in progress, when it is completed.

I look forward to reading it, however you shouldn't be to surprised how everything can boil down to a simple dick joke. Even if it is spread over 500 pages of harry potter.

Wow, they're are quite a few writers on CFUK (me included). keep up the good work!

I look forward to your opinion, Aconan, and no, I'm not surprised that dick jokes were brought into this, and even less surprised at their source -_-

Arouka, post something for us to read! Feedback is crack to writers

I've read your story, and blatantly avoided the silly word-games of your previous readers.

I like it, beags. A little too short for me, as I didn't really feel like I got to know the characters, but with more of that, you're bound to succeed. Your story pretty much has what I like about stories; a fast pace, a dark demon (the cursed sword in this case) and an unsettling ending. Keep up the good writing, beags. I am looking forward to reading your current work in progress, when it is completed.

Kahr

Thank you very much, at least someone managed to avoid the inevitable "simple dick jokes!" I know what you mean about the length of the story; it was for FridayFlash, so the stories have to be 1,000 words or under. The Swordsman is actually my third attempt as I couldn't bring myself to shorten the first two, so they're sat on my hard drive waiting to be finished.

And now, I've just seen your post, Kahr, so I'm off to read [at least the first chapter] of your writing!

Yeah. I do enjoy short stories, but this was kinda TOO short. If you have others though, I'd love to read them. If this is any indication of your other writing, I think I will enjoy any of your work.

Small update: Book Republic (an Irish boutique publisher) has posted a short story of mine (a new one) on their blog. It's about twice as long as The Swordsman.

If you're interested, you can find it here.