Humour

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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