Short Fiction
WOLF MOON
Alice, a young girl, and her enormous rescue dog, Loops, look up at the otherworldly Wolf Moon. Alice makes a wish. But will her wish come true? And what lurks behind Loops’ glinting grin and yellow eyes?
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The Whale
This story is an excerpt from WONDER, a live lit salon created by White Rabbit, commissioned by Revelation and funded by Arts Council England, streamed live on December 4th 2020.
TWELVE POINT PLAN
It’s all gone wrong. First of all don’t look back. Then you need your twelve point plan to get you through your day.
BEV’S HAT
Finalist Waterstones Short Story Award
Bandit Fiction
“If you look when you come into the pub, you’ll see Bev’s hat hanging there. It’ll still be there when Bev’s long gone, when a whole bunch of new people sit here and drink, figuring out how things really are, making up the story of their lives as they go.”
A tender account of love, sheep kidnapping, and the importance of the past.
IN BETWEEN DOG
Alice’s rescue dog Loopy, looks strangely like a wolf when dusk falls. Alice is being bullied by two boys. The obvious thing to do one evening is to ask Loopy to go and eat the bullies.
MERCURY
Mercury the winged messenger has been turned into a stone statue on the roof of Dyrham Park house. He believes that at the tipping point of the year, on the shortest day, he will be set free again.
WINTERS EVENING IN BÉKÉSCSABA
Accidents are a matter of timing. Or mistiming.
SPOKEN WORD EVENTS & READINGS
BEV’S HAT
Waterstones, Sunderland
Word of Mouth, Bristol
WINTER’S EVENING
Greenwich Observatory, London
Oldfield Books, Bath
IN BETWEEN DOG
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
Greenwich University, London
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Courage Copse Creatives, North Devon
DEADLINE
Burdall’s Yard, Bath
MERCURY
St James Wine Vaults, Bath
Greenwich Library, London
THE WHALE
White Rabbit. Revelations, Ashford
/postponed due to lockdown