Please note this list includes a number of titles better described as black humour!
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 Tall Story | 24th Sep 2018 | 1450 | |
8 | A Visit from Saint Nicolas – 2017 Version. | 9th Jan 2018 | 495 | |
9 | Addressing Impatience | 22nd Sep 2016 | 200 | |
10 | All Apologies: A Writer’s A-Z (blog) | 3rd Dec 2018 | 2200 | |
11 | Angels and Cards | 8th Jun 2017 | 600 | |
12 | Animal Magic | 22nd Feb 2021 | 800 | |
13 | Arse from His Elbow | 18th Jun 2018 | 550 | |
14 | As Safe as S*it | 7th Mar 2022 | 900 | |
15 | Behind Locked Doors | 12th Jan 2021 | 700 | |
16 | Billy Bunter’s Christmas Surprise | 23rd Dec 2019 | 2000 | |
17 | Blue Is the Colour | 26th Jul 2021 | 850 | |
18 | Bouncers! | 6th Mar 2016 | 200 | |
19 | Boxed Into a Corner | 20th Dec 2017 | 1,200 | |
20 | Brother, Oh, Brother! | 14th Apr 2018 | 650 | |
21 | But Can You Hide? | 8th Feb 2018 | 600 | |
22 | Chivvers’ Foibles | 29th Aug 2016 | 200 | |
23 | Cilice Sod | 7th Aug 2016 | 200 | |
24 | Clarissa’s Missives | 8th Feb 2017 | 600 | |
25 | Clarissa’s Missives – Part Three | 17th Aug 2017 | 1,500 | |
26 | Clarissa’s Missives – Part Two | 29th Apr 2017 | 1,100 | |
27 | Cocksure | 12th Jun 2016 | 200 | |
28 | Comic Tragedy | 20th Nov 2017 | 900 | |
29 | Contact | 26th May 2021 | 900 | |
30 | Danny and the Dolly Bird | 2nd Mar 2020 | 1100 | |
31 | Dinner With the Colonel | 21st Dec 2020 | 900 | |
32 | Dog Story | 10th Aug 2019 | 850 | |
33 | Don’t Dig for Bombs! | 30th Aug 2018 | 1200 | |
34 | Don’t Mind the Police! | 30th Nov 2015 | 100 | |
35 | Double Trouble | 20th Mar 2016 | 200 | |
36 | Dreams on Board | 23rd Jun 2018 | 650 | |
37 | Duck Surprise | 21st Feb 2016 | 200 | |
38 | EC was Here | 27th Aug 2017 | 750 | |
39 | Encounter on London Bridge | 18th Oct 2015 | 200 | |
40 | Erection and Resurrection | 10th Nov 2016 | 600 | |
41 | Fibonacci ‘n’ Chardonnay | 11th Dec 2016 | 700 | |
42 | Fire Words | 16th Dec 2019 | 1000 | |
43 | Four Red Roses – A Valentine Story | 10th Feb 2020 | 750 | |
44 | Free Money | 28th Feb 2018 | 650 | |
45 | Gender Concerns | 11th Feb 2019 | 1000 | |
46 | Get in the Habit! | 12th Jun 2016 | 500 | |
47 | Goodbye Bernie, Hello Samantha | 26th May 2020 | 1100 | |
48 | Green and Pink | 19th Nov 2018 | 1150 | |
49 | Guest Post: iPademonium by Martyn Searle | 18th Nov 2019 | 600 | |
50 | Guest Post: Until The Nows Come Home by Peter Runfola | 28th Jun 2018 | 400 | |
51 | Having a Laff (20 short extracts from published posts) | 18th Feb 2017 | 1,000 | |
52 | Heartless Desires | 14th Apr 2017 | 600 | |
53 | Here’s Looking at Your Kid | 29th Jan 2018 | 650 | |
54 | Hopes and Arrows | 17th Apr 2016 | 200 | |
55 | How Long Is 24 Hours? | 8th Mar 2021 | 800 | |
56 | How to Eat a Peanut | 18th Jun 2017 | 500 | |
57 | If Only They Could Speak | 23rd Jun 2017 | 650 | |
58 | In Memoriam | 10th May 2022 | 800 | |
59 | Incident in a Park | 10th Jan 2022 | 1350 | |
60 | Inventions Я Us | 1st Sep 2016 | 300 | |
61 | Is There Anybody There? | 21st Oct 2017 | 1,000 | |
62 | Just One Little Crumb | 8th Apr 2019 | 1700 | |
63 | Legend of the Sprogge – poem (TASWG) | 14th Feb 2016 | 216 | |
64 | Legless in the Park | 15th May 2016 | 200 | |
65 | Letters from Reuben | 2nd Dec 2019 | 700 | |
66 | Little Pricks in the Night | 18th Sep 2016 | 200 | |
67 | Lucifer’s Kitchen | 29th Jul 2016 | 500 | |
68 | Luck of the Devil | 12th Nov 2016 | 500 | |
69 | Martian Holiday | 21st Feb 2022 | 1100 | |
70 | Memory Lane | 18th Apr 2022 | 1200 | |
71 | Mind Your Subconscious! | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
72 | Miss Chan Takes a Trip | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
73 | Monasticity | 25th Nov 2017 | 1,000 | |
74 | My Name is Ian Z McPhee (TASWG) | 10th Apr 2016 | 627 | |
75 | Myrtle Shaw Investigates | 8th Jun 2018 | 1300 | |
76 | Mysterious Ways | 3rd Apr 2016 | 200 | |
77 | Never Lovelier | 12th May 2020 | 850 | |
78 | New Forest Frolics | 4th May 2017 | 1,750 | |
79 | Oh, Moo-ah Moo-ah! | 24th Jan 2018 | 500 | |
80 | One Man in His Time | 3rd Jul 2017 | 650 | |
81 | Peer’s of Wigan | 29th Nov 2015 | 200 | |
82 | Pie in the Sky | 16th Mar 2020 | 1100 | |
83 | Play with Emotions | 27th Dec 2015 | 200 | |
84 | Postcard from Hispaniola | 2nd Aug 2017 | 150 | |
85 | Reba’s Wedding | 17th Feb 2020 | 800 | |
86 | Rest Room | 1st Nov 2015 | 200 | |
87 | Return of the Gnome | 4th Apr 2018 | 1,000 | |
88 | Revelation | 9th Aug 2021 | 800 | |
89 | Ringing the Changes | 1st Mar 2016 | 1,750 | |
90 | Shameless! | 19th Jan 2018 | 700 | |
91 | Shelly in the Jungle | 19th Aug 2019 | 650 | |
92 | Something Nasty | 1st Feb 2021 | 900 | |
93 | Something to Do with the Sea | 23rd Jul 2019 | 750 | |
94 | Statue at Liberty | 13th Jul 2017 | 700 | |
95 | Stone the Crows! | 1st Jul 2019 | 800 | |
96 | Tangled Lives | 15th Oct 2018 | 700 | |
97 | Tastes Like Hippopotamus to Me | 12th Oct 2020 | 800 | |
98 | Taylor Maid | 30th Mar 2017 | 600 | |
99 | The Assignment (One Crazy Day) | 18th Oct 2021 | 800 | |
100 | The Ballad of Johnny Fang (poem) | 1st Mar 2021 | 370 | |
101 | The Black Swan | 29th Oct 2015 | 590 | |
102 | The Blob from Outer Space | 7th Feb 2016 | 200 | |
103 | The Bride | 2nd May 2022 | 650 | |
104 | The Final Mystery | 31st Oct 2015 | 100 | |
105 | The Hollow Santa | 25th Dec 2016 | 500 | |
106 | The Invisible Man | 25th Oct 2021 | 800 | |
107 | The Listening | 18th Jan 2021 | 700 | |
108 | The Magic Roundabout | 27th Jan 2020 | 500 | |
109 | The Name is Grey | 3rd Jan 2022 | 550 | |
110 | The Neighbour | 15th Nov 2015 | 200 | |
111 | The Old Fuse Trick | 13th Apr 2020 | 950 | |
112 | The Price of Silver | 24th Jun 2019 | 850 | |
113 | The Psychic on the Hill | 26th Nov 2018 | 1700 | |
114 | The Rump of Midas | 9th Jan 2017 | 700 | |
115 | The Saltby St. Mary’s Murders | 1st May 2016 | 200 | |
116 | The Sam Wildman Story | 28th Feb 2022 | 1000 | |
117 | There Was None Bolder | 29th Mar 2021 | 1100 | |
118 | Time out of Joint | 30th Apr 2018 | 500 | |
119 | Timothy the Armchair | 12th Nov 2018 | 950 | |
120 | Touché | 5th Mar 2018 | 700 | |
121 | Tranquil Beginnings | 8th Nov 2021 | 900 | |
122 | What’s in a Name? | 30th Mar 2020 | 600 | |
123 | When the Fat Man Croaks | 30th Oct 2020 | 900 | |
124 | Wounded Walking | 10th Oct 2022 | 900 | |
125 | Zip It! | 4th Jan 2017 | 900 |
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