Fiction.
I attend a writing course in my spare time. We are set homework at the end of each session that allows us to explore different approaches in our writing. Below are some of my favourite pieces. Feel free to read and provide feedback!
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Welcome to Novella
A smorgasbord of a story from multiple prompts takes us into the world of Novella, where humanoids take the form of historical…
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Waiting for Rimet
A pastiche of Waiting for Godot, transplanted to a lounge in which two men have just switched off the penalty shootout on…
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Into Battle
Charlie Morton stands ready to go over the top from the British trenches, thinking back to the wife he’s left at home…
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The Girl Who Stole the Sky
After running away to London and returning home ashamed, Angie tries to repay her devoted mum by stealing a Sky satellite dish.…
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Coming Home
After sixty years away, football returns to England, reflecting on a changed nation: once optimistic, now divided and burdened. As crowds unite…
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The Sweetest Perfection
In a filthy room during a storm, heroin-addicted Tommy wakes desperate for another hit. Refusing methadone and resigned to his ruin, he…
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Today Is Not Yesterday
Kathleen’s life unravels after police arrest her husband David over historic abuse allegations. At first she defends him, but court testimony destroys…
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Our Man in Denmark
A comic spy-report retelling of Hamlet follows agent Wormold at Elsinore as he observes Claudius’s suspicious rule, Hamlet’s erratic grief, Polonius’s murder,…
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Service
A dark biblical retelling casts Peter as Jesus’s assassin, murdering Lazarus to protect the movement from betrayal. Troubled by guilt and faith,…
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Door
Emily opens a seemingly normal door glowing with eerie green-purple light. Inside, she finds a small, podgy creature with pointy ears and…
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White Flag
A soldier recalls surrendering at dawn after a doomed rearguard action near Dunkirk. Out of ammunition and wounded, the platoon raises a…
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The Case of the Smashed Vase
Sherlock Holmes exposes Peter Royston’s staged murder plot: a fake smashed vase disguised the theft of a priceless Ming vase, while strychnine,…
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An Ocean of Stars
During an ISS spacewalk, astronaut Luca’s helmet begins filling with metallic-tasting water. Nearly blinded and struggling to breathe, he returns to the…