Fiction
Short stories, flash fiction, poems, and extracts from the print edition.
Gaff
A short story that concerns a successful Millennial Irish author.
30 April 2026
Cannonball!
A short story, focused on the film industry.
16 March 2026
Sugar Mummy
A short story about Annie, who’s taken on a different type of client.
22 July 2025
The Boys
An extract from our young author’s forthcoming novel.
6 May 2025
Splendide Mendax
A short story concerning Fed, born Frederick, a young man who considers Julian Assange to be the messiah.
17 February 2025
Empty Orchestra
A short story in a pub.
6 November 2024
Cleaner
A short story from cartel country.
12 September 2024
The Knife
A thumb-biter of a tale.
23 July 2024
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
A newly unemployed journalist tries and fails to expose a window-smashing ring in south London.
1 July 2024
The Adolescents
A bitterly sad short story about a couple navigating life, loss and illness in the first few years of their forties.
4 March 2024
Axolotl
A short story about a dog and featuring a Vanessa Carlton song.
9 August 2023
Baby Donald
We begin in a hospital in the north London suburbs.
19 April 2023