Fiction and poetry

Commentary

You can read some of my reviews of fiction and poetry on Medium (and at Coffee Time Reviews).

My series of reviews of detective fiction is also right here!

Short and flash fiction

Daily Very Short Stories on Twitter (#vss365)

This is an ongoing thread of tweet-length stories.

In Darkness‘, Dear Damsels (theme: Retreat)

You can also listen to this story, read by me, on Ko-Fi.

22 minutes’, in Unspoken (chapbook from Exeter Publishing)

Supper at the Bryn Ddu‘, Ko-Fi (first in a series of DI Dylan Jones mysteries in South Wales)

Toffees and Raindrops‘, Ko-Fi (a fairy and brownie join forces to escape the afterlife)

Dull‘, The Junction (in which a politician gets comeuppance and realises a harsh truth about himself)

‘Dull’, Paragraph Planet, 26 January 2021 (A micro-fiction produced while working on the longer story above; Paragraph Planet changes its content daily, so you’ll need to choose the specific date to read)

Spinning Teacups‘, Lit Up (a short Halloween fiction about the danger of drinking the tea)

You can also listen to this story, read by me, on Ko-Fi.

Poetry

‘Shush’, The Delinquent

‘Thirst’, The Delinquent