Brogues from Smith-Perkins
Brogues from Smith-Perkins came from a set writing prompt: describe a character through their casual outfit, writing for up to fifteen minutes. …
Fiction
Examples of my fiction to read
Time in a Bottle
Time in a Bottle resulted from a set writing prompt: a family drama, no more than 500 words, containing Summer, heat, road, dog, sadness. …
Short Fiction List 2023
The Short Fiction List 2023 (updated): some of the short stories posted here on the site. …
The Serpent in the Sands
“What’s with all the cloak and dagger, old boy?” Bainbridge asked as he sat down next to me on the park bench. Smooth, dapper, reeking of expensive cologne, old money and confidence. …
Mister Rabbit
Mister Rabbit resulted from a set writing prompt: a children’s story for 5-8 year-olds, no more than 500 words, containing rabbit, ice cream, river; third person, past tense, containing both description and narrative. …
The Green Vase
The Green Vase is from a flash fiction prompt based on the cumulative sentence. It’s not about the green vase at all. …
Fiction: The Fifth Horseman
“Can I just take a few details,” Jane asked as the unremarkably short, unremarkably thin and unremarkably… average man sat in the visitors’ chair in front of her desk.
“Sure.”
Hair; brown. Jacket; brown. Corduroys; brown. Shoes; brown. Jane detected a pattern.
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Fiction: Janet Davies and the Asylum Seeker of Kla’Arg
Just when I thought I’d seen all sorts, Janet Davies thought as she approached her desk after her coffee break. …
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Isaac
Isaac. Sci-fi short fiction in the style of Silverberg, Asimov, Vonnegut and others of the Golden Age.
“Isaac, we already had this conversation.” …
BBC9: In the Closet
“You’re listening to BBC Radio 9, Night-time and we’re in the Closet. Thats the musical special-interest closet for all you fans of indie hardcore, grunge, guitar, mixed core, fruit-and-nut, hub-cap and community disco; be it on download, CD, vinyl, 78, 45, 33 and a third, 38-26-34, Arsenal-Brentford one-nil, 911-assist or the vuvuzela. …