Category: Short Stories

Very (May 2017) (Words 998 / 3.5 mins) It was so very still. I didn’t want to move for fear of sending ripples out and disturbing the scene around me. I couldn’t remember ever being out of my bed before 6am, never mind out of the house. Our movements had been so restricted since the… Continue reading Very

Stop! (Apr 2017) (Words 926 / 3 mins) “Stop! I don’t understand what you’re asking me to do, please, can we just start at the beginning and go through it again?” Clare was getting increasingly bewildered, it seemed her matured mind just couldn’t keep pace with modern technology. She was finding it harder to keep… Continue reading Stop!

The Turmoil Jed Caused (Part 2) (Mar 2017) (Words 988 / 3.5 mins ) I was due to go out, it was getting nearer and nearer to the time we’d arranged and I was holding my phone, willing a message to come through to say that they’d cancelled. Surely the weather will put them off.… Continue reading The Turmoil Jed Caused (Part 2)

Snow Night (Feb 2017) (Words 1514 / 5 mins) Watching the flakes fall, they came from different angles, they were all shapes and sizes. Apparently snowflakes are based upon a hexagonal shape, have a beautiful triangular formation but I couldn’t see that today. Some of them even seemed to be going back up, they were… Continue reading Snow Night

The Turmoil Jed Caused (Mar 2017) (Words 1154 / 4.5 mins) “I’m off! I’m going now!” I’d got myself out as fast as I could. “Don’t try to stop me!”  I didn’t look back at the trashed flat or stop to pick anything up, the weather outside was possessed but I just ran headlong into… Continue reading The Turmoil Jed Caused

Up the Chimney (Feb 2017) (1457 words / 5 mins) My name’s Charlie Black and here I am again in Aldbrough Hall. It’s very fancy, blimey, the chandeliers, one of ‘em could light up the whole street where I come from! It seems like they only do things on a grand scale. Just look at… Continue reading Up The Chimney

River (Feb 2017) (Words 992 / 3.5 mins) “Good Morning Maisie, I thought I’d find you sitting in the window again! Looking out at the river?  Have you had a restful night?” Maisie raised her eyebrows in reply then turned her gaze back to the view of the river. From her chair by the window … Continue reading River

Amira and Grace (Jan 2017) (Words 1156 / 4 mins) She had never told anybody this before, but her new and unexpected friend seemed to make all her secrets so much easier to share. Maybe it was because she was from the other side of the world. Maybe it was because they spoke a different… Continue reading Amira & Grace

Memory and Distortion (Nov 2016) (Words 1368 / 4.5 mins) Why isn’t she answering my call? Where is Caitlin? I’ve been banging my cane on this floor for ages and she hasn’t come to me. She’s always nearby, she’d have told me if she was going out of the house. Is it a Friday? I… Continue reading Memory & Distortion

Cause and Effect (Oct 2016) (Words 1339 / 4.5 mins) The lockers stand like sentinels, they are indistinguishable, no degree of variation will be tolerated in this state of the art health club. The changing rooms are not a place that Rachel likes to dwell, she grabs her blue sports rucksack from a locker and… Continue reading Cause & Effect