Here is a collection of short stories that I have written over the years. I’ll be adding new pieces every now and then, so keep your eyes peeled. All stories are available in their entirety, for free.
I hope you have as much fun reading them as I had writing them. If you particularly enjoyed a short story, please comment and share!
Contest Winners and Shortlisted Works
- A Little Bit Off**
- As It Ends**
- Astro Naught*
- Honesty in G# Minor**
- Sea the Moon**
- Sequel to the Apocalypse**
- The Things That Do Not Float*
- What Did We Do?**
* Winner of a contest or competition
** Shortlisted for a contest or competition
Serialised Stories
Reedsy Short Stories
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- A Heart Is Not an Orange
- All HAL’s Eve
- A Long, Narrow Box
- A Village Under the Purple Moon
- Bridgemoss Guardians
- Blind Visitors
- Buy Another Birthday
- Demonomania
- (Don’t) Listen to Me: An Essay
- Donum Ex Deo
- Eye to Eye
- Feel Like Baking Love
- Forests of Bone
- Frank
- Free-Range Meat
- George, Jenny, and the Stars
- Grandma’s Garden
- House of Mirrors
- Homeowner’s Association
- How to Build a Boat
- I Am That Which Rustles the Leaves
- I Am the Groundskeeper
- I Like to Knit
- In the Dark of the Zombie City
- It’s the Count That Thoughts
- Lights Shined into Pried-Open Eyes
- Listening to Ghosts
- Living and Dying in 42 Beachley Street
- Maledictions and Muffins
- Muffled
- Night Train to Pinea
- No Bubbles
- Onwards, Towards the Witch
- Public Order
- Printed Words
- Reiteration
- Returning the Favour
- Routine
- snoitseuQ and srewsnA
- Something Swims Behind (Still My Sunshine)
- Ten Fingers, Two Hands
- The Comicbook Kid
- The Dead at My Door
- The Hands that Rattle the Cage
- The Lonely Earth
- The Open Window Lets the Rain In
- The Place Where the Birds Don’t Sing
- They Called It Home
- Timebomb
- Too Many Candles
- Treading Water
- Two Wheels to the Coast
- Unlucky for Some
- Watching Jeremy
- Water Wears Rock
- We Take the Wolves
- When the War Falls Silent
#BlogBattle Entries
- A New Breed
- A Small Death
- Don’t Let It Feed
- Foliage
- Old Strittie
- Plastic Sheets
- Play It Again, Daddy-O
- She Doesn’t Mind the Chlorine
- Spy-Hopper
- The Night Has Teeth
Children’s Stories
Other
- A Very Bite-Sized Halloween 2019
- Slashing Through the Snow
- Which Heart? A Very Bite-Sized Valentine 2020
- Yule Be Sorry: A Very Bite-Sized Xmas 2019
P.S. If you don’t have time to read an entire short story, head over to my Bite-Sized Horror page, for some two-sentence chills! Or check out one of my 99-word stories!
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