Short stories, Microfiction, Unfinished Novels and more
‘Dapper’ Dale’s death
Noel MurphyDale had done this to him. Threat after threat sandwiched by false friendship, even sympathy. Dale played with him until Ted finally broke.
A Christmas Hope
Noel MurphyA Rank Sandwich in Bolton – Part 1: before the Murder
Noel MurphyYou would never have believed that she’d been one of the first female pilots in the RAF back in the day, but she fell out with the military.
Christmas in Sam’s Restaurant
Tim Smith“We’ve cleaned, Chef”, she snapped back. She knew what he was feeling because she was feeling it too. Christmas week and she was already planning where to work next. My…
Don’t call him Satan
Noel MurphyYou snake! You dog! You dirty snitch. My brother’s got 15 years in prison because of you…
Fat Man
Noel MurphyThen he stripped to red-ochre painted nakedness and drank a bottle of gin to wash down a rattle of amphetamines.
Haring down the hill
Noel MurphyHe sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want to go home where all his relatives would have arrived in black, coughing into sandwiches…
It is what it is
Tim SmithIt is not a stroke of luck to be born where you were born. Everybody knows that. Think about it.
