Flash Fiction

Here are a couple of recent stories of mine from WestWord

The Moment of Escape – WestWord

Writing Santa

Here are some of my stories from Ellipsis Magazine

Six Things I’ll Have Done by the Time You Wake Up by Jan Kaneen
Breaking Windows by Jan Kaneen
Where Shadow Meets Shade by Jan Kaneen

Here’s a couple of my stories from the FlashFlood over the years, starting with 2023

https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2023/06/iris-grimes-smartphone-diary-by-jan.html

https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter-by-jan-kaneen.html

2023 Microfiction Results
Here are all the winning stories from the National Flash day prize. They are all fab. You can find mine by clicking the box, following the link then scrolling down the page to the Highly Commendeds. Its called The Fate of Small Creatures

Here’s the link to my winning flash from the National Flash Fiction Day Micro competition 2022.

2022 Microfiction Results

The Distorted Reflections of a Narcissist’s Wife – Fictive Dream Feb 2021

Below is a link to my third prize winning flash Fiction at the Bath Flash Awards October 2020. Just click on the link. All the winning flashes are free to read on-line.

Jan Kaneen Oct 2020 Third Prize

The story below won the Flash 500 comp at the start of 2020 and was published online in January 2020

https://flash500.com/what-went-through-my-mind-when-i-first-read-about-the-butterfly-effect-in-chaos-theory-the-phenomenon-whereby-a-minute-localized-change-in-a-complex-system-can-have-large-effects-elsewhere-by-jan-ka/

https://fictivedream.com/2020/02/24/the-never-ending-story/

The story here, Ten Green Bottles, came second in Molotov Cocktail’s Wild Flash Competition in August 2019 https://themolotovcocktail.com/vol-10/wild-flash/ten-green-bottles/

The story here was published in October 31st 2019 as part of the Monster Competition at Molotov Cocktail https://themolotovcocktail.com/vol-10/flash-monster-2019/climate-change/

The Arnolfini Funeral  Flashback Fiction 1st July 2019

How to Sacrifice Your Life in the Line of Duty and Still Go Uncommemorated on War Memorials, Flash Flood June 15th, 2019  https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-sacrifice-your-life-in-line-of.html

My socially phobic inner voices as evoked by the prompt ‘doors’, Micro Madness June 7th 2019, https://nationalflash.org/micro-madness/

How To Keep the Hunger at Bay, Writers HQ May 2019 Comp Short List

How to Stay Warm in the Winter from Flash Flood 2017

http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/how-to-keep-warm-in-winter-by-jan-kaneen.html

https://cabinetofheed.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/exorcisms-jan-kaneen/

Ad Foc Fiction Winner Full Stop https://t.co/kTs7Mwgk74

Molotov Cocktail Flash Felon Winner The London Umbrella Company https://t.co/5GxZDVroYq

Runner Up Retreat West We’re Going to Pick up Daddy https://t.co/URQwntNRtA Runner up Retreat West

Winner Retreat West Flakes

http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/flakes-by-jan-kaneen/

A scary story for Halloween https://occulum.net/2017/09/05/spin-by-jan-kaneen/

This came fifth in the Flash Phenomenon Comp at Molotov Cocktail

https://themolotovcocktail.com/about/archive-vols-1-3/vol-6/flash-phenom/waiting/