Zoe Proudlove's Occasional Weblog http://zoeproudlove.blogspirit.com/flash_fiction/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:28:43 +0100 All Rights Reserved http://zoeproudlove.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/04/13/the-biography.html http://zoeproudlove.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/04/13/the-biography.html noreply@ (Zoe Proudlove) Flash Fiction Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:55:00 +0100 <em>I wrote this confection for the most recent round of the <a href="http://p076.ezboard.com/fmirabilevisufrm17" target="_blank">Short Sharp Imaginative Writing</a> competition.</em><br /><br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a writer of flash fiction and other<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove lives, works and writes in Manchester. Her stories have appeared in her writing group newsletter<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a computer programmer by day and a storyteller by night. Her most recent stories appeared in Nowheresville Story Zine and VanityPub.com. She has two dogs, a husband and a favourite teddy bear<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove lives in Manchester, where she gains inspiration from the grey clouds and stormy days, which explains why you will reject this story<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is surgically attached to her keyboard. She works computer magic by day, and is bossed around by her fictional creation at night. She gets no sleep. Her most recent stories have appeared in We Actually Pay magazine and Tough Editor.com, and have been nominated for several major awards by her mother<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a modern magician. She works for a top secret IT startup, where she leads a team of specialist software developers in the search for a computer that can empathise with its users ... that has telekinetic powers ... that can predict the future, based on negligible differentials in quantum effects. Naturally, her work absorbs a considerable amount of her brain power, but she manages to spare some of her finest alpha waves to give life support to her favourite fictional creations. The rest of her time is devoted to escaping the attentions of MI5, and foiling her commercial competitors. She likes dogs, but can't own any because of the security risk. Her husband is a teddy bear<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is one half of Britain's top custom teddy bear manufacturing team. She and her partner live in a cottage overlooking Derwent Water, where they farm goldfish and carp to provide a ready supply of eyes. Their most challenging commission to date was an exploding teddy bear for the latest James Bond film, Just Die, Already, but Zoe's favourite commission will always remain the 10 foot high mohair bear she made to be the next secretary general of the UN. In her spare time, she grows sweetpeas and bakes flatbread. She also sometimes makes stuff up<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a single mother of ten children, who lives in a canal barge and can thus be said to be of no fixed abode. Inspiration for her stories, which have appeared in Glitter Bus, Grunta and Barely Credible Stories, comes from the people she meets on her travels and the antics of her talented and energetic family. She is the only person to have been accidentally locked in the reputedly haunted Harecastle Tunnel overnight. All she saw was a deceased crisp packet<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove has more imagination than sense, or so her dear old dad always used to say. Her partner is learning how to put up with her. If she spends too long curled up with a book, the top of her head gets hot. She drinks tea and tries not to eat chocolate<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a writer of short fiction, who lives and works in Manchester. Her stories have disappeared into print on several occasions. She hopes one day to learn how to stop this<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove lives in Manchester, where she writes short stories and shopping lists<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is a writer of<br /><br />Zoe Proudlove is.