Bear Country
Why had he brought her to this place? She lay on the bed reading, listening to the insistent beat…
The Selkie
October is dying quickly now. They bring me soup but I have no appetite. My skin is the colour…
The Shopping Trolley
The kids fought over pushing it to the top of the hill, to their ‘launch pad’ above the shopping…
Mother’s Ruin
Mother’s Ruin won Third Prize in the 2016 TLM Short Story Competition. ‘Galileo was the one who thought the…
Fascicle 41
Winner of The London Magazine Short Story Competition 2016. Sometime between 1858 and 1864, Emily Dickinson embarked upon her self-publishing…
They Who Surround
The story my grandfather told of how he and my grandmother would walk further and further into the woods,…
There are Precious Things
In carriage three of the 4.38 out of Mile End, there are precious things. Tanisha drops breathlessly into a seat.…
The Rain Horse
From our archives – this short story was first published by The London Magazine in February 1960. As the young…
Snow Ice Cream
The snow of ’88 was the one that everybody remembers. Nixxon and I had cheap, roll-up plastic sleds that endlessly…
Crossing the Border
The fields were sodden from four days of late February rain and the cold dawn air smoked to every…
The Cowsheds
An extract from Arcadian Nights, The Greek Myths Re-imagined, to be published by Duckworth on September 24th 2015 …
Math son of Mathonwy
A re-telling drawn from the Mabinogion It was back in the time in Britain when there were many rulers.…
Under the Golden Arches
Dictes moy ou, n’en quel pays, Est Flora la belle Rommaine? Archipiades ne Thais Qui fut sa cousine germaine?…
First Encounters
We’d been sleeping in separate rooms for two months. Denise said she needed to get her head straight. I’d…
The Abstractionist
How could he be eighty-one already? Looking out through his one decent eye, nothing seemed to have changed at…
Puggy Booth’s Secret
The admiral’s teeth have been giving him gyp. He’s had to have all his real ones out. The new…
Glatt’s Ronda
Justin Glatt. Remember him? Probably not, but, for a while, he was a name, not mega, as they say,…
King of Iceland
‘He was ambitious, diversely talented and appreciably amoral; a measure of self-discipline came later, with reluctance’ Australian Dictionary of…
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