Fern Armstrong and her best friend Andy Striker are on the run from their lives. In this story we follow these two people escaping the confines of their lives. Where Fern is escaping her dictating and violent parents and Andy is escaping their harsh and unaccepting parents. story inspired and following exit music (...
A series of anonymous thoughts somewhere on the spectrum between alive and dead in a world much the same way. (from my YWS account, and also based off the album 'Amnesiac' by Radiohead. A bit experimental, not sure if it's poetry or not.)
TOP FIVE WINNER in the Dear 2114 Writing Contest - Write the Future with Margaret Atwood. In 2114, what will it mean to be together? To be apart? What if, when the next step in evolution occurs, you get left out? Would you choose to catch up, or hold on to your existence? Approximately 3400 words *I had originally pa...
Who is Hayate Nana? Well, that's something Hayate Nana herself is trying to figure out. And here's her story to go with it. LONG BIO: Hayate Nana was born in what would be referred to many as "foster care". She is fortunate to be raised, named and loved by someone who was like a mother to her, Saki, who leaves the hom...
*COMPLETED* Stuck in a city that's been branded Ground Zero for the 'War on Drugs'; a lonely out-of-towner deals to find his way out, literally. He finds himself contracting some interesting companions along the way who may just be the key to his sanity and escape. Jedi and Ben, Calista and Lily: two sets of friends f...
A repressed city worker becomes increasingly obsessed by the outline of a fallen man. A short story taken from the collection Process of Elimination (2016).
Partly inspired by Radiohead's hit classic 'Fake Plastic Trees', this very short story is all about love, patience, perseverance and the hardships revolving around the death of a loved one.
I was heavily inspired by the story behind Radiohead's "Ok computer" album, the story of Thom Yorke surviving a car crash and whilst listening to Let Down, a song on said album, I wondered what setting a person would be in while thinking of these lyrics, so I started writing about a busy London metro. I eventually cam...
Cynical seventeen-year-old Lycia wakes up in the dark, twisted town of Greenwood, unable to remember how she got there. Aside from her mother, who is trapped in a coma-like sleep, Greenwood’s only other inhabitants are the hostile and eerily identical students who attend the school. Lycia befriends the school outcasts...