Martin Marriott
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Writer. Poet. Perpetual Draftsman.
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction! Snippets 14: The Lurgy
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Snippets #14: The Lurgy
Extract from the Diary of John Budd, Governor of New Ashkelon, 1st Foundation Settlement of Edenfall  Sunday 11th Jan – Day 9,854 SLI (since last infection)  Amos’s condition wor…
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30 stories. A few pages each. Infinite worlds. Perfect for quick escapes and long afterthoughts. Bite-sized fiction with a big imagination.
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#Kindle
#Ebooks
#shortstory
#flashfiction
#novel
#booklove
#bookworm
#bookshelf
#author
#BookLovers
#Reading
#Fiction
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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Snippets: Small Victories
London, 1797 Fool by name and fool by nature. Jeb Fool had been used to having that deriding jibe thrown at him all his life—mostly by his family—and now, as he hurtled down the narrow alleyway, hi…
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Bit of Fun #1
#WelcomeToDerry
#strangerThings
#Pennywise
#Christmas2025
#vecna
25 days ago
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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#humour
#christmas
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Snippets: Denied!
“Denied?!” “Yes, denied.” “But… you can’t…” “I think you’ll find I can.” “This is all because of Christmas ’86, isn’t it?!” “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” “Oh, I think you do, Emily!” …
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Snippets: A Royal Night (Of Sorts)
With his hands clasped behind his back, the king of fifteen independent nations stood proudly—military, in fact—in his favoured blood-red velvet dressing gown as he gazed, weary-eyed, out the windo…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/snippets-a-royal-night-of-sorts/
about 2 months ago
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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Snippets: The Delightful Rosemary Bellamy-Brown
Nestled in an idyllic corner of the Cotswolds is Morton Wells, a quintessential English village so picture-postcard, so bygone-yesteryear-rose-tinted-glasses-Englishey, that it would make a meathea…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/snippets-the-delightful-rosemary-bellamy-brown/
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When sanity cracks, monsters surface. Two dark thrillers from The Cumbrian Chronicles—twisted, chilling, unforgettable. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
#kindleunlimited
#ebook
#fiction
#shortstory
#drama
#serialkiller
#cumbria
#crime
#thriller
#storyteller
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Her Other Half: A Cumbrian Chronicles Short Story (The Cumbrian Chronicles) eBook : Marriott, Martin : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Her Other Half: A Cumbrian Chronicles Short Story (The Cumbrian Chronicles) eBook : Marriott, Martin : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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3 months ago
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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Snippets: Cyril, Take It Away!
Good evening, Ladybirds and Jellyspoons! Welcome back for another night of frivolities, slapstick humour, embarrassing moments, regrettable sexual encounters, and of course—crazy ex-partners. I’m y…
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3 months ago
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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Snippets: We Shoot Magpies On A Thursday
“When winter comes to Gorstenholme, Loki himself packs up his tools of evil deeds and scarpers for more accommodating climes.” That’s what Grandma Zopa always said. She’d been dead four springs now…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/snippets-we-shoot-magpies-on-a-thursday/
3 months ago
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Got a few minutes to spare? Check out my flash fiction!
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Snippets: The Wilderness
The wilderness I find myself in is almost swallowed by darkness. A faint glimmer of light flickers from somewhere above. There—just there—in the distance, I hear laughter… from a television? The mo…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/homework-5-lost/
3 months ago
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Snippets: Mother
The wind whipped, and the rain howled its hatred. The cold tore at their flesh, dragging their souls, screaming, to Hades. On they trudged, every step heavy and laboured. The unforgiving sand was t…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/homework-4-dialogue/
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Snippets: Mr. Fabian’s Old Curiosity Box.
DORIAN COLERIDGE CAME TO HIS SENSES and found himself sitting opposite a very old man with a shrivelled face, tiny grey eyes deeply set in his skull, and a few wisps of white hair extending from hi…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/homework-3-whats-in-the-box/
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Snippets: We Burn It Down
We tear it all down. We burn it down. We scorch the earth. We turn the soil black. We lay waste to it all. Leave no stone, no building, no soul unturned or untouched by our righteous hands. Leave t…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/creative-writing-homework-2-1st-person-3rd-person/
3 months ago
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Snippets: Angelo
Angelo Barnard was well-traveled. His profession had taken him to all corners of the globe, even Antarctica. He’d nearly lost the trigger finger on his left hand to frostbite, and every now and the…
https://mazzmarriott.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/creative-writing-homework-1-character-scenario/
3 months ago
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When we don’t see the signs, When we don’t recognize the same old rhetoric, When we don’t learn from the
#past
, It will become our future. Be very careful what you wish for— It may come with teeth. Sharp. Hungry. Jagged. Teeth. That may just bite… you.
#vss365
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After so many years In marital union, She
#yearns
to be seen again— Truly seen and adored, Not as a mother or wife, But as a lover. After so many years In marital union, He yearns for the touch of his lover, Not the mother of children, Nor that of his duty-bound wife, But that of his lover.
#vss365
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I stumble, giddy and full of Guinness. How the black stuff makes you immortal. On the grass, I giggle. Up at the stars, I stare, trying to make out a
#constellation
— the Plough… Orion… Nope. Just stars. So many stars. Hiccup. Giggle. Hiccup.
#vss365
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The ills of man bleed into the fabric of society. We don the coat, the shirt, and the trousers woven from such things. We gasp, cough, and splutter at the
#pungent
smell of what we have created. Eyes turn blind, conscience pleads not guilty.
#vss365
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Just saw Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Gave it a solid 8/10. I think they should reboot it from scratch and have Timothée Chalamet play a new IMF agent named Edward Knox.
#MissionImpossible
#reboot
8 months ago
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New book! Found a lovey bookshop in Bath called Topping & Company Booksellers.
#newbook
#bookaholic
#amreading
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8 months ago
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Once again, I feel creatively stifled. I’m forcing myself to write something, but it feels… fake. Like a cheap coat passed off as the Real McCoy. Maybe it’s because I’m reading American Psycho, and it’s starting to bore me. Just 30 more pages to go.
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#vss365
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30 twisted tales. One dark imagination. From time-traveling sheds to AA meetings with Dracula, Thirty Very Short Stories is bite-sized brilliance for lovers of the weird, wicked, and wonderful. Now available as an ebook! Thirty Very Short Stories
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#ebooks
#bookbuzz
#bookworm
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Thirty Very Short Stories eBook : Marriott, Martin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Thirty Very Short Stories eBook : Marriott, Martin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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A Brief Saturday
#Newsletter
…Meanwhile, in Rome, men in funny party hats and extravagant gowns bury an elderly man who was elected by a selection of suspicious-looking men to be God’s highest vessel upon Earth.
#vss365
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Happy Saturday, you beautiful people! In addition to writing prose, I’m also a singer-songwriter. I’ve just released three songs on iTunes, Spotify, and other platforms. If you get a chance, please check them out!
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Martin Marriott on Apple Music
Listen to music by Martin Marriott on Apple Music.
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#vss365
#website
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#vss365
#return
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I’ve lost all my writing mojo.
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Manners
#cost
nothing, and you’re born with class. Not into it? If only more people understood this, the freak show we call Earth would be a much better place.
#vss365
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#Products
of an Omniscient God We wreak havoc upon His wondrous creation with such glee. Plunder His creatures into extinction, Pollute the sky and desecrate the land— All with His blessing and knowledge. For such an omnipotent being, He’s powerless to stop us.
#vss365
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Good morning, Ladymen and Gentlegirls! I cordially welcome you to the 4Âľ Quarters Edition of the
#Quokka
Games. We begin today’s proceedings with Quokka Synchronised Swimming, followed by Quokka Taekwondo.
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Good morning, Prompters! My final
#BlueSkyRelay
prompt is
#Sloth
. I’ve really enjoyed my time as host, and I hope you’ve had fun with my Seven Deadly Sins prompts. Starting tomorrow, the next host will be Jakob -
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Happy prompting, and good luck!
#writingprompt
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Just watched Venom: The Last Dance. An American film set in America, where most of the American characters were played by English actors🤣
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#blueskyrelay
#wrath
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I’m doing a daily writing challenge where I write a 75-word story each day. If you’d like to read future stories—or check out the ones I’ve already written—please subscribe to my WordPress page!
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Martin Marriott Stories
Aspiring Writer. Delusional Author.
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Good morning, Prompters! Your
#BlueSkyRelay
prompt for today is
#Wrath
Happy prompting, and good luck!
#writingprompt
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