Bee Gee on my Bus

A young boy's joyful encounter on the bus gives him a moment of reprieve from his family life.

Under a Turning Sky

This story about a Cornish conscientious objector was longlisted in the Ink of Ages competition, 2023.

Mrs Cole Porter Recollects

Linda Lee Thompson, the wife of Cole Porter reflects on their life together.

The Cure for Reason

This 250-word flash story has been shortlisted in the Hysteria Writing Competition 2023.

Wildfire Flash Flash Fiction Competition

Double success in the Wildfire flash fiction competition, 2023: Ursula (third prize) and Rowdy Bouquet (highly commended).

Sometimes My Annoying Sister is Right

When Bridget's sister buys her a gift, she makes an unexpected connection. This story won third prize in the Crossing the Tees short story competition, 2023.

The Other Twenty Percent

90 year old Al recalls his time working as a naive young screenwriter in 1930s Hollywood. When he meets Thelma Dupont, an ambitious starlet who is not all that she seems, he is forced to learn some lessons in life.

The Third Man

An elderly man attending the wedding of his young neighbours starts to come to terms with the reality of his own long marriage.

The Triumph of Goliathia Tremayne

Goliathia Tremayne lived in a shack fashioned from bits of corrugated iron, railway sleepers, and the mast of a ship in a thorny, gorsey hollow half way up Carn Brea. Her best friend Jason lived in the yard, in a homemade tent the size of a coffin.

In an Orchard near Dunkirk

Two allied soldiers strike up a brief but powerful friendship in an orchard near Dunkirk in May 1940 while Luftwaffe planes attack evacuees waiting on the beaches.