Jacqueline Inglis

Writer and Author of Micro-fiction

Examples of her work

 

Jacqueline is prolific in her writing and the stories below will change so do check back regularly.  


Here are a few examples:


Dribbles and Drabbles -


TEST RESULTS

 

She hadn’t been waiting long when she was called in to see the gynae.

‘Sally, good news,’ he boomed, ‘your husband has an exceptionally high sperm count. No problems there!’

He looked bemused when Sally started laughing.

‘Really?’ she said, ‘even after a vasectomy? Anyway, I’m here about my prolapse.’


 This is a dribble of 50 words



LISTEN

  

 ‘He’s a Honey’, smiled Lucy, watching the retreating waiter.

‘Still ogling the men?’ sniped Holly.

Here we go, thought Lucy, next up ‘obviously getting pregnant at fifteen didn’t teach you anything.’

‘Are you listening?’ Holly snapped, ‘I said, obviously getting pregnant at fifteen didn’t teach you anything.’

‘I heard’, sighed Lucy, ‘but before you start whining about mum giving up work to care for the baby, meaning no money for you to go to Uni, you listen.  I was going to say that waiter reminds me of Honey, my dog.  They both have long shaggy hair and a lolloping gait’.

 

  This is a drabble of 100 words 


  

HAIKUS -


The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. Jacqueline has used this form to create stories (nano-fiction).


MENAGE A TROIS

Hairy legs entwined

Which are yours and which are mine?

I really can’t tell