Gina Headden

Gina was a runner-up in The Casket of Fictional Delights 2017 Flash Fiction Competition, Gina’s story ‘The Ties that Bind’ was recorded as a podcast and published on a number of audio platforms. Her writing has also appeared in fiction and non-fiction magazines, most recently in Longleaf Review and National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood. Gina lives in Scotland and tweets @gmdfreelance.

  • The Ties that Bind

    I slip in at the side door, the exit we used to leave by after Brownies when she was ten and I was seven, and I slink upstairs to the balcony. The peepholes are still here, small cracks in the wood through which we once spied on Brown Owl and her boyfriend as they canoodled…

  • 1-2-5

    The barracks washhouse is quiet now they’ve gone. Bone-weary and bruised, Experiment 125 takes off her stained utility-suit and sets it down beside the cleansing machine. This new model offers a range of programs: Medium-deep, Purify and Freshen-up. So far, 125’s run Freshen-up as instructed but tonight she’s using Start Over, the program she discovered…