Published Short Stories
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Presented here is a selection of my short stories which have been published in anthologies or magazines.
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‘The Long silver legs after midnight’

Hearing Voices Vol 3

 

Synopsis:A troubled man drives around in the early hours of the morning.
He pulls over to scribble down his thoughts but when the Police arrive they’re
convinced he's up to something else...
Info:
Appears in Hearing Voices, Vol. 3.
Publisher: Crystal Clear Creators, 2011
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‘Route Offline: a festival of short stories’

 Route Offline: a festival of short stories

 

Synopsis:A collection of stories from editors Crista Ermiya, Katherine Locke,
Daithidh MacEochaidh, Susan Tranter and myself.
Info: Hardback release of Byteback ebooks, includes 'The Three and a Half Day Parent'.
Publisher: Route, 2008

 

‘The Back Door Step’

Staple 68: The East Midlands Issue

 

Synopsis: An Insomniac loiters on a doorstep.
Info: Featured in Issue 68 of Staple Magazine
Publisher: Staple Magazine, 2007
Extract: Click to read this story online

 

‘Oh Nottingham, is full of fun...’

LeftLion December 2007

 

Synopsis: Poetry on the terraces.
Info: Featured in the December Issue of LeftLion Magazine
Publisher: LeftLion Magazine, 2007
Extract: Click to read this story online

 

‘Waiting for God’

Creature Mag Issue 5 Lost and Found

 

Synopsis: The British Love to Queue...
Info: Featured in Issue 5 of this online magazine
Publisher: Creature Mag, 2006
Extract: Click to read this story online

 

‘DJing for Dogs’

Stimulus Respond 18

 

Synopsis: Breaking up is hard to do so try performing telepathy with a Labrador...
Info: Featured in Edition 18 of this online arts magazine
Publisher: Stimulus Respond, 2007
Extract: Click to read this story online

 

‘How the loneliness of the Dartford Toll Operator made me miss a digital miracle’

Transmission Magazine

 

Info: Featured in Issue 7 of Transmission Magazine
Publisher: Transmission Magazine, 2007

 

‘Trying to Find Van Breukelen’

Ideas above our station

 

Synopsis: A story about life and death and footballers....
Info: Included in the new Route anthology, 'Ideas above our station'.
ISBN: 1 901927 28 8
Publisher: Route, 9th November 2006
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‘Wheelie Bins and World Wars ’

Roundtable Review

 

Synopsis: A story about bins and things....
Info: Featured in Edition 3 of this online arts review
Publisher: Roundtable Review, 2006
Extract: http://www.roundtablereview.co.uk/edition_3/fiction/wheelie.html

The Roundtable Review site is no longer online. You can view an archived version here.

 

‘The Cocco-Bella Man’

Wonderwall Synopsis: Not a holiday romance
Info: One of the lucky thirteen stories found in 'Wonderwall', the new collection from Route.
Price: 8.99
ISBN: 1 901927 24 5
Pages: 176.
Publisher: Route, 7th September 2005
Link: Click to visit the publishers site

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‘The Three and a Half Day Parent’

The Three and a Half Day Parent Synopsis: 6 short stories about break-ups, parenting, and neighbours who drive big white vans.
Info: An ebook, published as part of the 'byteback' series for Route
Price: Free Download
Pages: 48, enough for one session in the bath.
Publisher: Route, March 2005

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‘Why I have to wear a pair of Wranglers everyday for the rest of my life,
whilst I live on this street’

Naked City Synopsis: A 101 uses for a dead dog that is really alive
Info: This appeared in ‘Naked City’ (Route 15)
ISBN: 1 901927 23 7
Pages: 272 Price: £8.95
Publisher: Route, 9th November 2004
Extract: Click to Read the Whole story

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‘Oral Communication’

York Tales

Synopsis: A modern day version of Chaucer’s ‘The Clerks Tale’ which twists the notion of unconditional female submissiveness.
NB: This story was published as ‘The Housewives Tale’ and was adapted slightly to contain more facts about York, such as place names etc
Info: This appeared in ‘York Tales - whän that Aprïlle’
ISBN: 0-9543247-7-3
Pages: 244 Price: £9.95
Publisher: Endpapers, 1st December 2004
Extract: Click to Read the Whole Story
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‘Three Across, Two Down’

Nought Point Three

Synopsis: The solution for a happy funeral is perhaps the solution to a happy life
Info: This appeared in ‘Nought Point Three’
ISBN: 0-9541337-3-0
Pages: 147 Price: £4.99
Publisher: Launderette Books, 2004
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‘The Birthday Boy’

Nought Point Three

 

Synopsis: The story of a spoilt brat or perhaps an over bearing father or maybe something completely different.
Info: This appeared in ‘Nought Point Three’
ISBN: 0-9541337-3-0
Pages: 147 Price: £4.99
Publisher: Launderette Books, 2004
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‘Hamadryas Baboons and Lisa Lashes’

New Writer Synopsis: About relationships, dented cars and dented egos.
Info: Winner of the Jo Cowell International Short Story Award 2003.
This appeared in The New Writer no:64 Feb 2004
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‘The Man with the Voice’

Man of Trent

 

Synopsis: About an elderly man who is a lover of tea, talking, and entertaining single mothers in the daytime.
Info: This appeared in ‘Man of Trent’
ISBN:
0-9541337-2-2
Pages: 133 Price: £4.99
Publisher:
Launderette Books, 2003
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‘The Holy Trinity: How the National Lottery, Dale Winton and the Millennium Wheel can bring about World Peace’

Straight Up

 

 

Synopsis: Everything which the title suggests and nothing more.
Info: This appeared in ‘Straight Up’
ISBN: 0-9541337-1-4
Pages: 114 Price: £4.50
Publisher: Launderette Books, 2002
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'Why I have to wear a pair
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'Oral Communication '

'Three Across, Two down'

'The Birthday Boy'

'Hamadryas Baboons and
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'The Man with the Voice'

'The Holy Trinity...'

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