#shortstory
If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost
When I was a kid, I loved the TV show 'Man from Atlantis', about a mysterious man with the ability to breathe underwater. It inspired my short story 'The Girl Who Breathed Between Worlds'.
Read it here: https://fatherroderick.substack.com/p/the-girl-who-breathed-between-worlds
Links to some short stories I wrote a little while ago (free to read, but on my ko-fi page because I kind of use it as a blog):
A Little More Than Time (Involving a clueless mad scientist):
https://ko-fi.com/post/A-Little-More-Than-Time-X8X7N98QR
Everyone's Favourite Super Villain (Rambling tale of someone who suddenly got super powers):
https://ko-fi.com/post/Everyones-Favourite-Super-Villain-C0C0LJWKL
The Lucky One (post-apocolyptic diary):
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Lucky-One-Y8Y22G059
I finally got around to reading "Why Don't We Just Kill the
Kid In the Omelas Hole" in @clarkesworld.
Don't wait around as long as I did, Isabel J. Kim has written yet another banger.
The pen-ultimate part of the 'Wanderings in Wales' short story series by Thomas Richards is now available on my website. 'The Gipsies of Mowddwy' tells the story of cold-blooded murder without any dedemption or remorse.
Hot off the digital press: the fourth of six short stories by Thomas Richards.
'Anna of Llynn' tells the sad tale of two young lovers' happiness spoilt by a third jealous heart.
This story comes with a content warning about descriptions and portrayals of mental illness.
The third story in the series of 'Wanderings in Wales' is now up on my website. Frankly, 'The Spectre of Pont Vathu' is my personal favourite from the whole set. It's a thoroughly creepy story that knows exactly when and where to stop.
Amplitudes is out and available! I have a story in this! The feminine aspect of the Holy One fucks a closeted trans woman! There are lots of other good stories too! Read it!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770919/amplitudes-by-lee-mandelo/
Did you know that archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a mouse beside Saint Peter’s bones, beneath the altar of the Vatican’s basilica?
In today’s short story, I imagined the tales that tiny creature might have witnessed.
https://fatherroderick.substack.com/p/the-rock-and-the-pebble
This lovely tale of new beginnings and last chances comes on a wing and a fresh breeze off the Cornish coast. SPRING FLIGHT, by Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney mastodon.social/@kevlin
Hot off the digital edition press, the second of six short stories. Follow Thomas Richards for a tale of a 'Sunrise from Cader Idris'.
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“Japanese #pencils and #notebooks, German #sharpeners. Sun-bitten Australian #hands.
My habit is quaint, I know, and there are downsides – deciphering my scribbly handwriting is like trying to communicate with the dead. And I’m accumulating piles of smudgy notebooks and stubs of pencils that I can’t bring myself to throw away. But I’m beginning to think all this is more important than I first anticipated.
A #writer friend recently posted that after updating her version of #Microsoft #Word, it invited itself to collaborate on her novel in progress, offering to work on 2,000 words at a time. Instead she workshopped her panic with fellow writers who helped her *unplug the tech*. But this is where we’re at. The question blooms by the day – how are we to know if any #Creative text, #novel, #essay, #poem or #ShortStory is AI assisted, or even #authored? In time, will it be impossible to tell?”
#AI / #Art <https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/23/i-am-writing-this-with-a-pencil-it-could-be-an-authors-last-line-of-defence-against-ai>
When Jensen learns he’s been laid off after twenty years of service, he turns his hand to crime. As he does so he encounters someone who is going to change him forever – and not in a nice way.
Listen to Jensen And The Lady Of The Manor - https://fionadobson.com/jensen-and-the-lady-of-the-manor/
Here's a story I wrote about a game my daughter invented when she was just about to turn 14. The game is called Old/Young and is about common experiences that happen over different generations. #oldyoung #shortstory #fatherdaughterlove
A #ShortStory about healthcare, desperation, and the cruelty of the US, currently on display like never before. It's #fiction, but also more and more likely to happen. 
"Radicalized" by @pluralistic. https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
#CoryDoctorow #ShortStories #CurrentEvents #authoritarianism
When I was reading today's news regarding death of the Pope, and his potential successors it reminded me of 1971 Nebula award winner story 'Good News from the Vatican' by Robert Silverberg. The one where Robot is elected as a new Pope :)
A creepy Easter story. Read this and the Easter Bunny will never be the same again!
https://juliehowlinwriter.blogspot.com/2015/03/easter-eggs.html
Delightful conversation w/ @sarenaulibarri on the pod today about #climate #restoration vs. #rewilding & her story WHAT KIND OF BAT IS THIS? in the Bright Green Futures anthology (releases Earth Day!)
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-29-climate-restoration-with-sarena