Category: Short Stories

This story was a runner-up in the London Short Story competition 2014. It’s set in a major, publicly-funded gallery, and features the hard-pressed Patti who finds that her job as a gallery attendant falls far short of what she hoped it would be. Eventually, as tensions rise, Patti finds she has to take matters into her own hands. Published by Flight Press and available from Amazon.

A short and violent response to a visual image provided by ‘Visual Verse’. It’s an idyllic summer’s day out in the countryside. But someone is busy in the cornfields, intent on a plan that is less than wholesome. What are they up to??

Jordan McQueen

Trapped in a relationship she cannot end, Barbara has reached the end of her tether. Will she find a way out? To find out, get hold of the anthology, Significant Spaces. To buy your copy, click on the external link, or visit Amazon.

ISBN 9781906451868

Significant Spaces, Earlyworks Press, July 2013

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A poor vegetable seller is minding his shop when a mysterious dog turns up on his doorstep, setting off a train of events that requires decisive action. ‘The Map of Bihar’ deals with poverty and passion. It appears in the anthology Best New Writing 2013, and was nominated for the Eric Hoffer prize for prose 2012. To get your copy, click on the external link.

ASIN: B0099PHCSU

Best New Writing 2013, Hopewell Publications October 2012

In ‘Private Passions’, the lives of the residents in a Glaswegian tenement are interwoven in ways that none of them realises. This story appears in the anthology ‘Barcelona to Bihar’. To get your copy of this anthology, click here, or visit Amazon:

ISBN 978-1 906451-58-5

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A poor vegetable seller is minding his shop when a mysterious dog turns up on his doorstep, setting off a train of events that requires decisive action. ‘The Map of Bihar’ deals with poverty and passion. It appears in the anthology Barcelona to Bihar. To get your copy, click on the external link or visit Amazon.

ISBN: 978-1906451585

Barcelona to Bihar, Earlyworks Press, May 2012

http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/barcatobihar.htm

Degsie is a cat who has a major impact in every household where he takes up residence. Hell-bent on serving his own interests, the chain of events he instigates quickly causes other people’s lives to unravel. The story provides an insight into some of the shortcomings of ‘Care in the Community’.

What people have said about Degsie

‘Darkly comic and lightly serious. Brilliant!’ – Camilla Z Nightingale, writer.

‘An unusual and captivating story, with subtle humour and a realistic atmosphere.’ – Peter Lavender, Senior Research Fellow, NIACE

‘A sobering and fascinating treatment on the themes of mutual understanding and survival in an indifferent world. I’ll be thinking about it for some time, and I’m glad I’ve read it.’ – James A. Murray

First appeared on the website of ‘The Feathered Flounder,’ Arizona, USA 2011.

Veil, set in inner city London, is a tale about the perceived value of Art and about matters multicultural. It appears in the anthology Recognition. To get your copy, click on the external link or visit Amazon.

ISBN 9781906451226

Veil, in Recognition, Earlyworks Press, April 2010

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Nirmala longs for a child. Her failure to produce one has dire consequences. The story appears in The Visitors. To get your copy, click on the external link.

ISBN 978-1-907090-05-9

Offerings and Thanksgivings, in The Visitors, Cinnamon Press, April 2010

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