Please note this list includes a number of titles better described as black humour!
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| No. | Title | Date Published | No. of Words | |
| 1 | A Brush with Teeth | 26th Jan 2021 | 900 | |
| 2 | A Controlling Interest | 10th Jul 2016 | 200 | |
| 3 | A Kind of Peace | 17th Dec 2018 | 750 | |
| 4 | A Merry Dance | 29th Dec 2016 | 1,000 | |
| 5 | A Night on the Clown | 17th Apr 2016 | 200 | |
| 6 | A Question of Semantics | 13th Dec 2021 | 900 | |
| 7 | A Stoical Man (poem) | 14th Nov 2022 | 250 | |
| 8 | A Tall Story | 24th Sep 2018 | 1450 | |
| 9 | A Visit from Saint Nicolas – 2017 Version. | 9th Jan 2018 | 495 | |
| 10 | Addressing Impatience | 22nd Sep 2016 | 200 | |
| 11 | All Apologies: A Writer’s A-Z (blog) | 3rd Dec 2018 | 2200 | |
| 12 | Angels and Cards | 8th Jun 2017 | 600 | |
| 13 | Animal Magic | 22nd Feb 2021 | 800 | |
| 14 | Arse from His Elbow | 18th Jun 2018 | 550 | |
| 15 | As Safe as S*it | 7th Mar 2022 | 900 | |
| 16 | Behind Locked Doors | 12th Jan 2021 | 700 | |
| 17 | Billy Bunter’s Christmas Surprise | 23rd Dec 2019 | 2000 | |
| 18 | Blue Is the Colour | 26th Jul 2021 | 850 | |
| 19 | Bouncers! | 6th Mar 2016 | 200 | |
| 20 | Boxed Into a Corner | 20th Dec 2017 | 1,200 | |
| 21 | Brother, Oh, Brother! | 14th Apr 2018 | 650 | |
| 22 | But Can You Hide? | 8th Feb 2018 | 600 | |
| 23 | Chivvers’ Foibles | 29th Aug 2016 | 200 | |
| 24 | Cilice Sod | 7th Aug 2016 | 200 | |
| 25 | Clarissa’s Missives | 8th Feb 2017 | 600 | |
| 26 | Clarissa’s Missives – Part Three | 17th Aug 2017 | 1,500 | |
| 27 | Clarissa’s Missives – Part Two | 29th Apr 2017 | 1,100 | |
| 28 | Cocksure | 12th Jun 2016 | 200 | |
| 29 | Comic Tragedy | 20th Nov 2017 | 900 | |
| 30 | Contact | 26th May 2021 | 900 | |
| 31 | Danny and the Dolly Bird | 2nd Mar 2020 | 1100 | |
| 32 | Deflated | 12th Dec 2022 | 1000 | |
| 33 | Dinner With the Colonel | 21st Dec 2020 | 900 | |
| 34 | Dog Story | 10th Aug 2019 | 850 | |
| 35 | Don’t Dig for Bombs! | 30th Aug 2018 | 1200 | |
| 36 | Don’t Mind the Police! | 30th Nov 2015 | 100 | |
| 37 | Double Trouble | 20th Mar 2016 | 200 | |
| 38 | Dreams on Board | 23rd Jun 2018 | 650 | |
| 39 | Duck Surprise | 21st Feb 2016 | 200 | |
| 40 | EC was Here | 27th Aug 2017 | 750 | |
| 41 | Encounter on London Bridge | 18th Oct 2015 | 200 | |
| 42 | Erection and Resurrection | 10th Nov 2016 | 600 | |
| 43 | Fibonacci ‘n’ Chardonnay | 11th Dec 2016 | 700 | |
| 44 | Fire Words | 16th Dec 2019 | 1000 | |
| 45 | Four Red Roses – A Valentine Story | 10th Feb 2020 | 750 | |
| 46 | Free Money | 28th Feb 2018 | 650 | |
| 47 | Fun of the Fair | 10th July 2023 | 600 | |
| 48 | Gender Concerns | 11th Feb 2019 | 1000 | |
| 49 | Get in the Habit! | 12th Jun 2016 | 500 | |
| 50 | Goodbye Bernie, Hello Samantha | 26th May 2020 | 1100 | |
| 51 | Green and Pink | 19th Nov 2018 | 1150 | |
| 52 | Guest Post: iPademonium by Martyn Searle | 18th Nov 2019 | 600 | |
| 53 | Guest Post: Until The Nows Come Home by Peter Runfola | 28th Jun 2018 | 400 | |
| 54 | Having a Laff (20 short extracts from published posts) | 18th Feb 2017 | 1,000 | |
| 55 | Heartless Desires | 14th Apr 2017 | 600 | |
| 56 | Here’s Looking at Your Kid | 29th Jan 2018 | 650 | |
| 57 | Hopes and Arrows | 17th Apr 2016 | 200 | |
| 58 | How Long Is 24 Hours? | 8th Mar 2021 | 800 | |
| 59 | How to Eat a Peanut | 18th Jun 2017 | 500 | |
| 60 | If Only They Could Speak | 23rd Jun 2017 | 650 | |
| 61 | In Memoriam | 10th May 2022 | 800 | |
| 62 | Incident in a Park | 10th Jan 2022 | 1350 | |
| 63 | Inventions Я Us | 1st Sep 2016 | 300 | |
| 64 | Is There Anybody There? | 21st Oct 2017 | 1,000 | |
| 65 | Just One Little Crumb | 8th Apr 2019 | 1700 | |
| 66 | Legend of the Sprogge – poem (TASWG) | 14th Feb 2016 | 216 | |
| 67 | Legless in the Park | 15th May 2016 | 200 | |
| 68 | Letters from Reuben | 2nd Dec 2019 | 700 | |
| 69 | Little Pricks in the Night | 18th Sep 2016 | 200 | |
| 70 | Lost in Translation | 31st Oct 2022 | 1000 | |
| 71 | Lucifer’s Kitchen | 29th Jul 2016 | 500 | |
| 72 | Luck of the Devil | 12th Nov 2016 | 500 | |
| 73 | Martian Holiday | 21st Feb 2022 | 1100 | |
| 74 | Memory Lane | 18th Apr 2022 | 1200 | |
| 75 | Mind Your Subconscious! | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
| 76 | Miss Chan Takes a Trip | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
| 77 | Monasticity | 25th Nov 2017 | 1,000 | |
| 78 | My Name is Ian Z McPhee (TASWG) | 10th Apr 2016 | 627 | |
| 79 | Myrtle Shaw Investigates | 8th Jun 2018 | 1300 | |
| 80 | Mysterious Ways | 3rd Apr 2016 | 200 | |
| 81 | Never Lovelier | 12th May 2020 | 850 | |
| 82 | New Forest Frolics | 4th May 2017 | 1,750 | |
| 83 | Oh, Moo-ah Moo-ah! | 24th Jan 2018 | 500 | |
| 84 | One Man in His Time | 3rd Jul 2017 | 650 | |
| 85 | Peer’s of Wigan | 29th Nov 2015 | 200 | |
| 86 | Pie in the Sky | 16th Mar 2020 | 1100 | |
| 87 | Play with Emotions | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
| 88 | Postcard from Hispaniola | 2nd Aug 2017 | 150 | |
| 89 | Reba’s Wedding | 17th Feb 2020 | 800 | |
| 90 | Rest Room | 1st Nov 2015 | 200 | |
| 91 | Return of the Gnome | 4th Apr 2018 | 1,000 | |
| 92 | Revelation | 9th Aug 2021 | 800 | |
| 93 | Ringing the Changes | 1st Mar 2016 | 1,750 | |
| 94 | Shameless! | 19th Jan 2018 | 700 | |
| 95 | Shelly in the Jungle | 19th Aug 2019 | 650 | |
| 96 | Shoot! Don’t Shoot! (poem) | 25th Sep 2023 (scheduled) | 250 | |
| 97 | Smitten | 2nd Sep 2022 | 750 | |
| 98 | Something Nasty | 1st Feb 2021 | 900 | |
| 99 | Something to Do with the Sea | 23rd Jul 2019 | 750 | |
| 100 | Statue at Liberty | 13th Jul 2017 | 700 | |
| 101 | Stone the Crows! | 1st Jul 2019 | 800 | |
| 102 | Tangled Lives | 15th Oct 2018 | 700 | |
| 103 | Tastes Like Hippopotamus to Me | 12th Oct 2020 | 800 | |
| 104 | Taylor Maid | 30th Mar 2017 | 600 | |
| 105 | The Assignment (One Crazy Day) | 18th Oct 2021 | 800 | |
| 106 | The Ballad of Johnny Fang (poem) | 1st Mar 2021 | 370 | |
| 107 | The Black Swan | 29th Oct 2015 | 590 | |
| 108 | The Blob from Outer Space | 7th Feb 2016 | 200 | |
| 109 | The Bride | 2nd May 2022 | 650 | |
| 110 | The Collecting Game | 2nd Jan 2023 | 800 | |
| 111 | The Final Mystery | 31st Oct 2015 | 100 | |
| 112 | The Hollow Santa | 25th Dec 2016 | 500 | |
| 113 | The Invisible Man | 25th Oct 2021 | 800 | |
| 114 | The Listening | 18th Jan 2021 | 700 | |
| 115 | The Magic Roundabout | 27th Jan 2020 | 500 | |
| 116 | The Name is Grey | 3rd Jan 2022 | 550 | |
| 117 | The Neighbour | 15th Nov 2015 | 200 | |
| 118 | The Old Fuse Trick | 13th Apr 2020 | 950 | |
| 119 | The Price of Silver | 24th Jun 2019 | 850 | |
| 120 | The Psychic on the Hill | 26th Nov 2018 | 1700 | |
| 121 | The Rump of Midas | 9th Jan 2017 | 700 | |
| 122 | The Saltby St. Mary’s Murders | 1st May 2016 | 200 | |
| 123 | The Sam Wildman Story | 28th Feb 2022 | 1000 | |
| 124 | There Was None Bolder | 29th Mar 2021 | 1100 | |
| 125 | Time out of Joint | 30th Apr 2018 | 500 | |
| 126 | Timothy the Armchair | 12th Nov 2018 | 950 | |
| 127 | Touché | 5th Mar 2018 | 700 | |
| 128 | Tranquil Beginnings | 8th Nov 2021 | 900 | |
| 129 | What’s in a Name? | 30th Mar 2020 | 600 | |
| 130 | When the Fat Man Croaks | 30th Oct 2020 | 900 | |
| 131 | Where Golden Sleep Doth Reign (poem) | 31st May 2023 | 250 | |
| 132 | Wounded Walking | 10th Oct 2022 | 900 | |
| 133 | Writing Wrongs (poem) | 24th Apr 2023 | 250 | |
| 134 | Zip It! | 4th Jan 2017 | 900 |
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