Fiction

Short stories. Mostly set in America. Occasionally bleak.


  • Plainview, 1986

    Plainview, 1986

    In Plainview you can see the storms coming for miles, and the one in ’86 took its time in getting to us. I was out getting baby formula (Lily had…

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  • Carol at Christmas

    Carol at Christmas

    Carol was sick to death of the crowds—the pulsating, relentless crowds. She was sick of the sticky little children wandering around with chocolate-encrusted hands, leaving muddy footprints across shop floors…

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  • Beaumont

    Beaumont

    They called her ‘the Angel of 61st and Beaumont’. No one could remember exactly when or how she got there; she just appeared one day, a Virgin Mary mannequin strung…

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