micro-fiction – A S H Smyth

WHAT’S YOUR FULL NAME, RANK, AND SERIAL NUMBER (SPECIAL OPS EDITION)?

A S H Smyth — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:07:43 +0000

Your Full Name, Rank, and Serial Number (Special Ops Edition) is:

‘Bob’
.

WHAT’S YOUR CARTHAGINIAN-GENERAL-WHO-IS-UNFAIRLY-DEEMED-LESS-NOTEWORTHY-THAN-HIS-CARTHAGINIAN-GENERAL-BROTHER NAME?

A S H Smyth — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:15:44 +0000

Your Carthaginian-General-who-is-Unfairly-Deemed-Less-Noteworthy-than-his-Carthaginian-General-Brother Name is:

Hasdrubal
.

A short story

A S H Smyth — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:12:19 +0000

I am currently in possession of two secrets:

…

The hashtags of Omar Khayyam

A S H Smyth — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:31:51 +0000

#verses
#wine
#bread
#thou

(Enow?)

Joke

A S H Smyth — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:36:18 +0000

A cafetière falls down the stairs.

*¡Bodum CRASH!*

On the back of a picture postcard

A S H Smyth — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:44:12 +0000

I oughta have brought you here.

Why Peter Ackroyd publishes more than me

A S H Smyth — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:21:06 +0000

Her argument

Peter Ackroyd is a genius.
Peter Ackroyd is a workaholic.
Peter Ackroyd is a Brilliant Man.

My argument

Peter Ackroyd doesn’t have a girlfriend.

A difficulty (The End)

A S H Smyth — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:34:58 +0000

She said she didn’t want to be with someone else.

But the one she wanted to be with wasn’t me.

Why my ex-wife and I didn’t have that much sex

A S H Smyth — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:32:22 +0000

She thought it was normal to be in bed at 10 o’clock.
I thought it was normal to be in bed at 10 o’clock.

Pretty soon, it turned out there were two 10 o’clocks.

After Wood (after Sebald)

A S H Smyth — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:42:52 +0000

… and it was here, while re-reading an article by the American critic James Wood on the oneiric nature of the writings of ‘Max’ Sebald, that I found myself impressed more and more by the feeling that it was in fact Wood himself who had at least once previously caused me to look up the word ‘oneiric’.