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Emma K. Leadley is a UK-based writer, creative geek, and devourer of words, images and ideas. She began writing both fiction and creative non-fiction as an outlet for her busy brain, and quickly realised scrawling words on a page is wired into her DNA. She particularly loves the challenge of small word-counts in micro and flash fiction.

I’m a short story author, producing speculative (science-fiction, fantasy and horror) microfiction and flash fiction as well as in the literary and contemporary storytelling genres.

Nothing to Lose, published by Grindstone Literary

auto.erraticism31st July 2020

I entered Grindstone Literary's microfiction competition and was one of the top twelve aka 'The Dirty Dozen' - participating was a risk for me but I was confide...

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Invocation, published in Drabbles of Dread

auto.erraticism15th July 2020

My 100-word story, 'Invocation' appears in Drabbles of Dread, published by Macabre Ladies. It's an original piece and very loosely based off "Something for the...

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Across the Limen, published by Fudoki Magazine

auto.erraticism7th July 2020

Across the Limen, a dark fantasy piece of flash fiction, is published by Fudoki Magazine. It was rejected by one publisher and short-listed by another, just ...

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My story Time Trap was published in 'Road Trip'

Time Trap, published in Blink Ink #40

auto.erraticism1st June 2020

My 51-word piece, Time Trap, was published by Blink Ink in their 40th issue, Road Trip. Blink Ink is a print zine of ~ 50-word fiction and I'm honoured to have ...

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Fearless, published by The Drabble

auto.erraticism23rd May 2020

My 100-word drabble, Fearless, is published by The Drabble. This was such an evocative scene in my head, for some reason, that it almost wrote itself. I’m n...

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Not In My Back Yard, published in Dark Solstice

auto.erraticism15th May 2020

My microfiction, 'Not In My Back Yard' was nearly called, "F*ck the Patriarchy" but the 'NIMBY' title works just as well. And as one man found out, if you do g...

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Multiple pieces published in ‘Japanese Fantasy Drabbles’

auto.erraticism16th April 2020

I have two drabbles published in this fantastic drabble collection. Kelly Matsuura is great to work with, as both a writer and publisher and I'm very pleased s...

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A Wail of a Tail, published in It Calls From the Forest

auto.erraticism15th April 2020

My short story, 'A Wail of a Tail', appears in Eerie River's first short story anthology 'It Calls From the Forest (Volume One)'. If you like folk tales where ...

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Call of the Siren and Uprising, both published in Oceans

auto.erraticism7th April 2020

My drabbles, 'Call of the Siren' and 'Uprising' were published in Oceans by Black Hare Press. The first is a piece of microfiction I love but was turned down b...

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