Tag: short story

Oxford became a home I hadn’t known I was missing – a place that understood me without asking. 

We walk along by the river, my hand in his, our arms of different lengths and his palms much bigger than mine. The sun...

Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden beams and bits of furniture – debris of a life...

"I want our story to be one of fields of flowers and quiet sunsets. I do not wish for violence."

The Quilt and Other Stories is a 1994 compilation of short stories by Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), a prolific writer of 20th-century India. She occupied...

Agnes need not have walked in on them fucking to know what was going on.

'Unpack-repack. That recurring dream that you only have in your Home Bed...'

"Jazz was being played over the stereo like theme music, as if they were acting in a television drama where each character had some essential trait, some crucial role."

"From a space we might call "above", an Entity watches - gargantuan, unfathomable, other."

"One summer, a summer which now seems to have passed by long ago, I slept and dreamt for the first time on the mainland."

"‘Look, you have drunk £3.15. You fool, that’s £3.15 you’ve eaten.’ Clink, the cup on the saucer, the coins sliding down my throat."

"The essay I would go on to write, and, reader, the article I had drafted and readied for this very publication, would, I see now, have Mansfield, alongside pretty much every other writer of fiction, willing to cross both space and time in order to beat me around the head with a copy of Crime and Punishment."

Edgar Allan Poe wrote his short story, the Masque of the Red Death, after his wife had been diagnosed with the then-incurable disease, tuberculosis....

A short story of everyday escapism, by Izzy Smith