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Beguiling flash fiction and musings to facilitate your escape from reality

An easy-to-digest digest of creative short stories and musings, slavishly crafted by Stephen Scott (Writer of Words Esq.).

About your host, Stephen Scott

Stephen is a freelance copywriter, ghostwriter, researcher, and editor with over forty years experience in advertising and marketing.

A published author, his professional articles have been published in Money Magazine, Zaraffa’s Grind, Vacations, Destinations South Pacific, Vacation Industry Review, The Chronicle and Q News.

Creative writing is a more recent exploit, kick-started by a poorly executed midlife crisis, with flash fiction and creative non-fiction shared via Paragraph Planet, The Hit Job, The Junction, The Haven, Illumination, P.S. I Love You, Storymaker, and Dip Your Toes.

His 750 word short fiction “The Second Son” placed third in 2023’s John Gavin Writing Competition.

His third-placing flash fiction in 2025’s Just 150 Words “Leaving Your Mark” appeared in The Outback Anthology of Short Stories Volume 10.

[Two for two. Let’s see if we can notch up a third third in 2027.]

He is proud to declare that with every new piece of flash fiction, he wins friends and enemies exponentially.

The magnificent illustrations embodying the visual construct of BrainCation are created by akindo - whose work can be found on iStock