Form: Short Stories

After running away to London and returning home ashamed, Angie tries to repay her devoted mum by stealing a Sky satellite dish.…

After sixty years away, football returns to England, reflecting on a changed nation: once optimistic, now divided and burdened. As crowds unite…

In a filthy room during a storm, heroin-addicted Tommy wakes desperate for another hit. Refusing methadone and resigned to his ruin, he…

Kathleen’s life unravels after police arrest her husband David over historic abuse allegations. At first she defends him, but court testimony destroys…

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,…

A dark biblical retelling casts Peter as Jesus’s assassin, murdering Lazarus to protect the movement from betrayal. Troubled by guilt and faith,…

Emily opens a seemingly normal door glowing with eerie green-purple light. Inside, she finds a small, podgy creature with pointy ears and…

A soldier recalls surrendering at dawn after a doomed rearguard action near Dunkirk. Out of ammunition and wounded, the platoon raises a…

Sherlock Holmes exposes Peter Royston’s staged murder plot: a fake smashed vase disguised the theft of a priceless Ming vase, while strychnine,…

During an ISS spacewalk, astronaut Luca’s helmet begins filling with metallic-tasting water. Nearly blinded and struggling to breathe, he returns to the…