Posts In Category Creative Writing
Magpies
on March 3, 2008 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
Are we free as birds? Graeme McCann investigates in this allegorical short story…
Eel
on February 16, 2008 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
A short story in which two friends fall out. It’s a bit like Salinger writing for Sex and the City. Well, sort of.
Dancing on Quicksand
on December 12, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
At the tender age of twenty five, you lay in crisis… you have even made an enemy of your penis – it’s too depressed, too deflated to perform.’ In the latest part of our series of articles on the quarter life crisis, Tom Siggins weighs in with a short story about suddenly waking up and discovering what comes next.
Bianca
on November 25, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
Shakespeare’s Othello — a tale of greed, lust, bitterness and jealousy. But what if the story was told from the perspective of one of the peripheral characters? Bianca is a girl who’s recklessly used and then thrown away, forgotten. This is her monologue. We happen to think it’s one of the most challenging, thought-provoking and inventive pieces of fiction we’ve seen in some time. Take a deep breath, dust down that copy of Othello you have’t touched since A level, and read on…
The Eversame
on November 24, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
A day in the life of…? You decide. Michael Powell delivers a short story that’s anything but 9 to 5.
Ketamine Ruined Her Party
on October 3, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
LaChute paints an all too familiar picture…
Chemnitz
on September 24, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
Chemnitz – a short story by Aris Roussinos
Rose
on September 18, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Comments (0)
Rose Awakens – A short story by Richard Allday
Fear and Lather in a West London Car Wash
on September 9, 2007 by admin in Creative Writing, Opinion, Comments (1)
According to our Perversion Correspondent, Vermillion Sproul, a novel act of personal degradation is gaining popularity in the carwashes of the capital. By offering him a large amount of money (exactly equivalent to the amount he owes his sister) we persuaded him to investigate in person. We’ve not seen him since, but we found this copy wrapped around a brick in the back of his abandoned car.