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Long-running, award-winning, Radio 4-broadcast live short story readings, based in central London (other major cities HK and NYC are available). "Writers write, actors read, audience listens, everybody wins."

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🎄Our final submission deadline of 2024, for Wreaths & Wraiths, is TONIGHT at 11.59pm GMT! đŸ‘» As usual, any story that's festive, tinsel-draped or winter-set works for this theme - BUT we are also particularly looking for haunting stories of...

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Read by David Mildon (final story in podcast, at 1h 27m 40s) Life #1 My mother chased after some alleycat purring like a little slut. She abandoned me in a parking lot. I walked around mewing like the little idiot...

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Read by Kim Scopes (4th story in podcast, at 1h 0m 55s) She smiled to herself as she descended two flights of stairs to the basement bar. He had been mysterious about the location of their date, insisting on giving...

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Read by Tony Bell (3rd story in podcast, at 32m 40s) The confession of the great alchemist Hieronymus Trithemius includes the admission of many heinous and horrifying acts: dissection of corpses, conversing with demons, and folding down the page-corners of...

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Read by Gloria Sanders (2nd story in podcast, at 17m 30s) It started out as a game. My sister had found a purplish flower hidden in a tangle of weeds, and we both recognised it from the illustration in one...

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Read by Margaret Ashley (1st story in podcast, at 5m 30s) The next-door neighbour is punching her husband in the garden. High-pitched grunts dart through the window like punctuation marks. He’s got pads strapped to his hands. Now and then...

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Read by Clive Greenwood (5th story in podcast, at 1h 17m 50s) Jenny calls me on the landline, our old number. ‘Pick me up,’ she says, ‘I can’t seem to find my way home.’ She sounds frightened, young, lost. But...

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Is that autumn in the air, or the whiff of a snuffed candle? But we're sure we shut the window ... Perhaps it's a hint of sulphur from the hellishly good haul of scary stories chosen for our harrowing pre-Halloween...

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Read by the author (57 minutes into podcast, here) I live just over the road from them; directly opposite. If I wanted to, which of course I don’t, I could see right into their lounge from my bedroom window. I’d...

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Read by Martine Richards (1h 15min into podcast, here) It all started with the bento box. Sort of. Bree's mother—the one still bragging about the farmhouse sink she'd installed in the kitchen of her mid-century Craftsman cottage, even though most...

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Read by Alexandra Kenna (4min 40sec into podcast, here) Anisha receives her first task at 2 p.m. >Steal a hat from the souvenir stall at the entrance to the Cardiff Coffee Convention. You have 25 minutes. Her heart thumps; her...

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Read by Aren Devlin (35 minutes into podcast, here) 15 September 2017. I was 12. Most of my friends at school, some of my frenemies too, had started their period over the summer. The holidays hadn't just granted new tans...

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Read by Miranda Harrison (19 minutes into podcast, here) Shana opens the window that overlooks Clapton Way, the one with mould at the seal that never disappears, and decisively throws the doll’s head into the street. Moments before she’d snapped...

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Hurrah! Tuesday September 10th sees the 8th edition of our annual talent-spotting tour-de-force of female-led fiction, Women & Girls! We have six stunning stories by six women writers exploring everything from aliens to arson: winning stories and full details are...

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Read by Gloria Sanders - fourth story in podcast, at 1h 02min, link below: S&L Podcast (right click Open Link in New Tab to enable fast-forwarding) The shooting-gallery with its trundling tinplate targets is where the kid heads the minute...

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Read by Jay Hunt & Sarah Barlex - final story in podcast, at 1h23min, link below: S&L Podcast (right click Open Link in New Tab to enable fast-forwarding) Report compiled by: I. C. Allerman & Dr. E. Brown Date of...

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Read by Claire Lacey - first story in podcast, link below: S&L Podcast (right click Open Link in New Tab to enable fast-forwarding) For the first time in months he’s looking forward to going out to play, because Christmas is...

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Read by Patsy Prince - third story in podcast, at 35:11, link below: S&L Podcast (right click Open Link in New Tab to enable fast-forwarding) If you want a peaceful weekend away in the sun, don’t spend it with serious...

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Read by Tony Bell (second story in podcast at 19min 30 secs, here) “If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go with a friend.” Andy wasn’t himself every time he connected. In...

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DEADLINE EXTENDED to Monday 6th May (because of the UK May Bank Holiday!) so you now have 5 DAYS TO SUBMIT! DEADLINE: Monday 6th May, 11.59pm UK time THEME: SPORTS & LEISURE It's an Olympic year, so we're looking for...

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Read by Gloria Sanders (first story in podcast, here) Sarah first noticed the specks on a bright spring morning. The city shimmered in pale light and she saw tiny somethings on the periphery of her vision. They disappeared when she...

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Next submission deadline: SUNDAY 5th MAY Theme: SPORTS & LEISURE (click for info) Story read by David McGrath (final story in podcast, at 1h 27 min, here) I once manned the helpline for tourists disenchanted by Paris not being the...

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Read by Magnus Rook (second story in podcast, at 17 min 45, here) The alarm was bleeping. Glenn stretched out a hand to silence it, his sleep-fogged brain registering too late the confines of his space. And so, once again,...

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Read by Tony Bell (third story in podcast, at 36 minutes 30 sec, here) When Mike Shephard burst in on the congregation of St Mary’s one wintry Sunday morning his announcement was met by six gasps and a groan. Five...

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Read by Tim Larkfield (fourth story in podcast, at 52 minutes, here) He doesn't know what to do with her spectacles. Every time he enters the room, they stare at him from the work table. Unseeing. Incomplete. The thin wire...

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Read by Ray Newe (fifth story in podcast, at 1h 9 minutes, here) ‘Would you give it a rest? All your moaning is doing my head in.’ That was Khalid the Cabbie, a vaguely sketched proposal for the lead character...

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Next submission deadline: SUNDAY 5th MAY Theme: SPORTS & LEISURE (click for info) From lottery-predicting angels to terraforming experiments & documentary disasters to Victorian widowers, via peripheral visions and "the graveyard of unfulfilled dreams", there's a dreamy selection of fantastic,...

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Read by Lucy Mabbitt, full podcast here. I worked at The Lost Sock for six months before I started stealing from the Lost and Found. It was a pragmatic decision. I had no more space in the box and there...

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Read by Tony Bell - full podcast here. Casebook of Dr Edward Phillips, 29th December 1826 Captain James Althorpe was conveyed to Liverpool Lunatic Asylum directly from his ship by seven police constables this evening (they told me “e’s a...

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Read by Gloria Sanders - full podcast here. It’s humid on the balcony. The street below emits only a quiet hum, its buzz weighed down by the heat. I let my body linger for a while, taking solace in the...

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Read by Paul Clarke - full podcast here. Can bears talk ...? Is not a question I had contemplated before today. Not a question, believe it or not, that had even tickled my consciousness prior to this evening’s trip home....

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Read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard - full podcast here. Aperitif: Spellbound Martini - Shaken for a hint of glamour! *** Revenge is a dish best served cold, and I’ve been freezing the bastard for months; churning it over and over like...

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Read by Katy Darby (click to listen) What Was & What Is MP3 You’re in the office; a small room decorated with dead plants in a building with other businesses trying to make it. The windows seal the sound of...

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Winning stories are announced below, and bookings are open now! From office romances to vengeful fairies and laundrettes to lunatic asylums, via kleptomania and commuting bears, we've a tasty selection-box of fiction for you enjoy at our first event of...

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Read by Zach Harrison (3rd story in podcast, at XXmin, here) Hi. My name is Rudy, and I'm an alcoholic. It's been 364 days since my last drink, but I still worry about falling off the wagon. Or should that...

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Read by David Mildon (5th story in podcast, at 1hXXmin, here) *Aelwyd: Welsh for hearth, and for home. Braith fills her lungs with the chill morning air, petrichor on the breeze. She avoids slipping on the icy path winding to...

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Read by Carrie Cohen (2nd story in podcast, at 16min 30s, here) Cassandra could not explain why she was compelled to visit Chance House. Or why she had dreamt of the grand estate, seeming to know its every corner. She...

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Read by Sarah Barlex (5th story in podcast, at 1hXXmin, here) It was Christmas in Berlin. Lise had come alone on the train from London because there was no one who might have come with her. Everywhere in the streets...

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Read by Stephen Butterton (1st story in podcast, at XXmin, here) When he got off at St Paul's, the station was deserted apart from a few discarded copies of the Evening Standard that skittered along the platform as the train...

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Read by Jamie Laird (6th story in podcast, at 1hXXmin, here) While Tom Phelan froze to death out the back of his pub on Christmas Eve, Tom Phelan became not too happy with the story of Tom Phelan, Tom Phelan...

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Read by Lin Sagovsky When Abbie summons me, she offers up her soul to destroy everything. Laughing, I decline. “I’m a fallen angel,” I say, gesturing to my missing wings. “Exiled to Hell for greed. But one day, I’ll be...

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It's never an easy task, sorting the very best stories from the teetering pile of talent that is the Women & Girls submissions every year ... but we're very nearly there! We'll announce the winning stories and authors ASAP -...

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Read by Anoushka Deshmukh (third story in podcast, here) Tonight, again, Madam cannot sleep because of the rustling. Because Madam doesn’t sleep, I can’t sleep. She pulls me from my cot — a meagre straw thing pushed to the furthest...

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Read by Jeremiah O'Connor (third story in podcast, here) It’s not perfect, but they’ve done it. It will be presented tomorrow by the team leader (nerdy Portuguese save-the-bees guy, remember him?). The invite has been sent out to all members...

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Read by Tony Bell - first story in podcast, here There was a roaring fire. Bess, the innkeeper’s lovely wife, moved through the crowd pouring mugs of ale, one to each, except for Big Sam, who took two, and Little...

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Read by Clive Greenwood - final story in podcast, here. “Well I'll be a ... The Granite Grappler. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.” The Granite in question was very much as his name would...

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Read by Lisa Rose - podcast here (4th story) You must be my eleven o’clock. Step into my office. Hope you didn’t have any trouble finding us. Our dragon should have met you at the drawbridge, but perhaps he's on...

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Fly, teleport or storm in to The Phoenix in June to witness acts of heroism and villainy (or even both at the same time) as our fantastic actors read brand new short stories of shadow-haunting monsters, heroic henchmen, epic wrestling...

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WANT TO SUBMIT TO OUR LATEST THEME, HEROES & VILLAINS? Click here! (Deadline Sunday 7th May) Read by Sarah Feathers (final story in podcast, here) We accept your demands. There is a flurry of static and she can’t be entirely...

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Read by Paul Clarke (fourth story in podcast, here) Joachim sat in the dreary cell waiting to be executed. The turnkeys would open the massive iron door late in the afternoons to read off the list of names. A few...

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Read by Lin Sagovsky (third story in podcast, here) NB Content warning for miscarriage & child loss 'What's this now?' the doctor asks her lady-in-waiting as he leaves the bedchamber, 'number nine lost?' Her lady-in-waiting confirms he's correct and closes...

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Read by Nathaniel Ashley (second story in the podcast, here) The boardroom has been prepared tastefully, for the session with three representatives of what we refer to only as the State. Lilies in vases either side of a large wall-mounted...

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Read by Patsy Prince (first story in podcast, here) There was once a princess in a high, far, wintry kingdom who had a very strange gift that some called a curse. It was on account of this that the princess...

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2023 will see the first Coronation in 70 years ... so the night of Tuesday 11th April (also our 150th show by the way, which makes us at least 70 in literary event years) is themed on Royalty & Revolution...

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Read by Rich Keeble (third story in podcast here, at 30:25) Monday ‘Tobes, the Meedy is flashing differently. Does it mean it’s not working?’ ‘Test it.’ ‘Who’s the biggest knob head?’ ‘I would describe neither of you using that word,’...

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UPDATE DEADLINE FOR NEXT THEME ROYALTY & REVOLUTION NOW EXTENDED TO SUN 12 MARCH Read by Andrea Hall (first story in podcast, here) The man opposite had started trying to make eye contact. I could tell by the way his...

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Read by Caroline O'Mahoney & Oliver Yellop (final story in podcast here, at 1:23:40) Dear Miss Sullivan, Was it but yesternoon I beheld you first, gliding so elegantly through Hanover Square in that utterly bewitching taupe walking-dress with the Paris...

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Read by Katy Darby (fourth story in podcast here, at 47:25) It was that limbo week between Christmas and New Year, five years ago. It was the first limbo week I had spent alone with the kids, after their dad...

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Read by Linda Shannon (second story in podcast here, at 16:50) It’s Sean’s sister, Jackie, who tells me he’s back. She drops it casually into the conversation when I bump into her at the market. ‘Just until Monday,’ she says....

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Read by Keleigh Wolf (fifth story in podcast here, at 1:03:37) The night is Vantablack and John Cage-silent when the Uber drops me at Zora’s. I thank the driver and rate him five stars and tip him a tenner on...

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Get all the feels This Valentine's Day we at Liars' League have a show to sweep you off your feet: six short stories, sexy and sad, frank and funny, read by our very finest actors. Meet agony aunts, lost loves,...

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Helen peers at the shrivelled creature while the workmen get on. It’s an ugly little thing, its skin thin as paper, its desiccated lips fixed in a permanent snarl. She puts out a finger to touch it and finds it surprisingly smooth and soft. She runs her hand over it, caressing its ribs and spine. Stroking it is strangely calming.

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Read by Sarah Barlex (final story in podcast, click here to play) Am I nervous? Of course. Am I scared? Absolutely. This place has been my life. It’s safe. There’s space to run, and a warm bed at night. I’ve...

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Read by Paul Clarke (second story in podcast, here) Congratulations on your new HomeGirlTM Dreamhouse Construction Kit! We at HomeGirlTM believe it makes the perfect Christmas gift for your young daughter, or perhaps even son! This is the modern age,...

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Read by Keleigh Wolf (first story in podcast, here) Here’s the thing about my line of work: my telephone rings when everyone else’s stops. Times like this: late night, Christmas Eve. Everyone other than me is tucked up in bed...

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Read by Lucy Mabbitt: listen to podcast here (third story) The chanting rises to a frenzied, animal pulse, like an Army cadence call, or gorillas booming across humid jungles. “DOWN. IT! DOWN. IT!” I shudder. They’ve all downed it. And...

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Hopes! Fears! Gifts! Parties! Joy! Panic! Love! Despair! As usual, the festive season is a positive rollercoaster of emotions and our Hopes & Fears Christmas event is going to give you one hell of a ride. Thanks to all the...

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Read by Caroline O'Mahoney (fourth story in podcast, here) Her heart is in the middle of the dining table next to the potatoes. It is pumping away against the tabletop. No one seems to notice. The white tablecloth is beginning...

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Read by Silas Hawkins (fifth story in podcast, here) Grave robbing, I’ll confess to. Murder and battery, I will not. I’m no killer, and there is no law on the books that condemns a man to the gallows for assaulting...

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Read by Stephen Butterton (third story in podcast, here) The pirates are thirteen days out of Port Royal, having drunk themselves liquid and swived themselves black-eyed on the last merchantman’s bullion, the dawn they sight the derelict. It's the first...

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Read by Lucy Mabbitt (first story in podcast, here) The first time she saw the girl, Jen was floating on her back, gazing at the Fowey shore through the frame of her feet. The days had reached that point in...

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Read by Andrew Baguley (second story in podcast, here) How times have changed. The sine qua non of the enjoyable social occasion for many people used to be cocaine. However, now that cocaine is readily available in Asda with some...

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Read by Keleigh Wolf (final story in podcast, here) “What’s with the ghouls?” you want to know. “Why so fucking rude all of a sudden?” Oh no, Derek. Were you blanked in the corridor? Did they stop talking when you...

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Avast! We've a scurvy sackful of swashbuckling stories for you this month, to chill your blood and shiver your timbers in time for Hallowe'en. There's sea-swept ghosts, grave-robbing, meat-smuggling, heart-eating, demonic middle-management, skulls, bones, vampires, zombies and of course PIRATES!

We look forward to welcoming you aboard the good ship Phoenix on Tuesday October 11th. Tickets are just ÂŁ5 - full details below. (Apologies but we cannot accept pieces of eight, doubloons or bullion as payment).

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Pssst ... love live lit? Come to our Hallowe'en event SKULL & CROSSBONES on Tuesday 11th October! Better yet, submit your own on-theme story to us (guidelines here) by Sunday 4th September. This story is read by Grace Cookey-Gam -...

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Read by Lois Tucker - podcast here (first story) On the edge of an island just off mainland Honduras, there is a shoulder-height tripod with a phone at the end. It is a selfie stick. A woman on the shore...

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Read by Carrie Cohen - podcast here (second story) The elderly sisters Pitt went missing shortly after the loose woman, Ramona Rothchild - known adulteress before she was widowed, and doomsday-bringer to many a philanderer - vanished into the woods...

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Read by Claire Lacey - podcast here (third story) It started with only one mum. She was all sweaty and couldn’t breathe because she was swinging so hard, but she really yelled up yours gravity. Then, all our mums got...

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Read by Orchid Ayers. Full podcast here (final story) My mother died in an unseasonably warm Ohio winter. There was no snow on the winding county byways, and the newly finished tar of the road to the cemetery was dry...

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WINNING STORIES ANNOUNCED! Our sixth annual ladies' night, where all stories are written and read by women, is on the horizon, & she's a WOW! We have flying mums, snake-haired temptresses, content mill drones, horror from the loch, and an...

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Read by Tony Bell - podcast here (third story) He was eager. Not like the others. There was swagger in him still; a soul revelling in the memory of his own body. ‘Well, here I am.’ He grinned, eyes full...

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Read by Jennifer Aries - podcast here (final story) Even in a magic kingdom, pizza tasted the same as anywhere else. Maybe it was intentional – if something was bland then no-one would send it back saying they didn’t like...

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Read by Stephen Butterton - podcast here (first story) The sun feels still now, like it has stopped rising and settled into the position where it can do most damage. Its heat is relentless, melting any breeze the sea has...

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Read by Jeremiah O'Connor - podcast here (4th story) He’s waiting for me when I come out of the hotel, stood in front of his black cab. Leaner than I remember, face a little more lined, hair now a gunmetal...

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Read by Lin Sagovsky - podcast here (2nd story) The coffin stone was not far now, and George Walker hurried forward as best he could through the chaos of snow, stumbling over the rocks, gasping at the pain in his...

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Read by Katy Darby - podcast here (5th story) In Search of Guatelumbia: An Open Appeal to the Global Academic Community The European colonisation of the Americas is a story riddled with wonder and tragedy. The dark interiors of the...

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Dragon Blood Pig Heart MP3 Read by Rebecca Yeo “I’ve ordered char siu pao,” Mum said. “Your favourite.” We were sat at a table upstairs in a busy restaurant in London’s Chinatown. The ‘pao’ she'd ordered were white steamed buns...

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Saturday Nights Have Changed MP3 Read by Aren Devlin Outside, the weather’s turning. The air is fecund with possibility. The sky has rinsed itself clean, and the certainty of new life hangs around in gardens and parks where the soil...

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How To Keep them Away MP3 Read by Jasmine Raymond My mother warned me. If you ever see them, she said, you must cross yourself to make them disappear. They will steal your voice if you don’t. The fear of...

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Odd Numbers MP3 Read by Sophie Cartman “Two oat milk vanilla iced lattes, please. Double shots.” “Two iced lattes 
 anything else I can get for you today?” The barista looked around – presumably for the recipient of the second...

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Tethered Crowns MP3 Read by DK Ugonna The capital of the Mainland was changing. Something was amiss. The wooden sign carved with 'Rika’s Salts' loomed over Saphyre’s head with an unnerving stillness. Where was the wind? She dabbed at the...

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In flaming June, we present tales of travel & abroad: fiction which takes us on a journey & shows us somewhere else ... From Peru to Penrith, Beijing to Bratislava, Antarctica, Mars, Ancient Rome - travel's our theme & our...

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On Tuesday 12th April (also our 15th birthday, btw) we showcased work by writers of colour with a superb selection of brand-new stories. in genres from contemporary comedy to folk-horror, dromestic drama to dark fantasy. We travelled from "NHS mosh...

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Read by Claire Louise Amias When I returned home on that Friday evening, the day after our first date, and I found the bunch of tulips behind the recycling bin, I was thrilled. Let me be clear, I’m not the...

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Read by Andrea Hall I’m not thinking about you, Ian. I haven’t spent this sleepless night playing “How Soon Is Now” on a continuous loop and alternately missing you so much it makes my chest ache, and wanting you here...

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Just Not Cricket MP3 Read by Gloria Sanders I’d genuinely decided there were no nice men left in London, possibly the world, before I met Mark: that they’d all been snapped up or kidnapped or something. And then Mark happened....

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Read by Carrie Cohen “Hello?” “Ah, um, is this ...?” The voice of a mouse, ringing the doorbell of the neighbourhood cat, and hoping they don't answer. “Is that ... the gardener?” “Yes dear, this is Agnes Rose, The Welsden...

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Read by Stephen Butterton As the howl of the siren for Daily Communion ebbed away, she removed her fingers from her ears. Through the thick glass dome, she could see far across the desert city: the pyramid temple with its...

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Good Enough to Eat MP3 Read by Patsy Prince - full podcast here I fell in love with him over pudding. Not dessert. I am not a woman who would eat a dessert. I would desert a dessert. I am...

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LATEST EVENT: Romance & Revenge was our February fiction night, held at The Phoenix, W1. Six stories of carnal consumption, gift donkeys, morality apps, tender tales of human love in an alien world, foul-mouthed ghosts, vengeful exes and magical lady-gardens....

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Read by David McGrath N.B. CONTENT WARNING FOR SWEARING AND UTTER FILTH .... ENJOY! When the kids were younger Joseph always turned off the television on a sex scene. The family would then sit in the silence of the sex...

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Read by Patsy Prince "Picture the scene," Henry says, taking a sip of brandy and setting the glass back down. "It's a traditional German Christmas. We see a young mother, blonde hair in braids, fretting over the placement of decorations...

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Read by Claire Louise Amias If we were all being honest, none of us expected the nanny to actually stay for Christmas. One of my bad habits (amongst a few), is letting my mouth run away with itself. James and...

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Read by Peter Kenny Uhtceara: lying awake in the period before dawn and worrying I lie in the dark and consider the issue of a list. Not a Christmas list, unfortunately – or at least, not that kind. On this...

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Read by Lucy Mabbitt “Who’ll be Mother?” Jess wonders as we flip through her extensive wardrobe. It’s more of a relief than anything that none of us are seeing our folks again this year – nobody’s exactly family-orientated, and enduring...

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Read by Tony Bell "No thank you, I shall carry it myself." Mr Jingle clutches his battered suitcase like Al Capone clutching his gun, or Al Capone's grandfather, perhaps. The young receptionist shrugs and leads him through to the old...

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Baking Day MP3 Read by Lin Sagovsky The bank slopes gently to the river so there is no danger for the girls. Mamma has said they may play there while she is gone into Mullinvane but they must not go...

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Our festive FRIENDS & FAMILY Christmas show took place on Tuesday 14th December at our regular home of The Phoenix, and the line-up of seasonal stories features everything you need for the perfect Christmas: 1) Lying awake worrying about stuff...

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Read by Oliver Yellop Dracula Lord of Darkness, scourge of Romania, drinker of blood and defiler of virgins, prince of the night, terror of the ages, beast-master of many forms and dread count of Transylvania since time immemorial, licks his...

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Read by Lois Tucker We’ve aw been there. A nicht oan the tiles. Dancin shoes oan. Tarted up like a Gregg’s donut at the front o the display. An innocent enough wee swally - or so ye hink. Then, a...

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Read by Stephen Butterton It’s not my real name. It’s just my stage name, written on both sides of my little sky-blue van: MISTER MERLIN, it says, in huge ornate lettering. And then underneath, in block capitals: CHILDREN’S PARTIES, BIRTHDAY...

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Read by Keleigh Wolf The forty-second floor office is preposterously swanky. I don’t think I have been at a place of business above third floor before. It seems the higher they get, the more luxurious they must become. This particular...

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Read by Silas Hawkins When, on St. Crispin’s Day 1416, in the fourth year of the reign of Henry V and the first anniversary of the battle of Agincourt, Goodwife Mary was brought before the assizes in Guildford, her sex...

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Read by Miranda Harrison “So,” said the Vampire, tying his cape. “We’re walking, I presume?” “We’ll take the car,” the Pumpkin said, with barely a pause. Frowning, the Vampire turned from the mirror to study his friend. “Really? You think...

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Carve the pumpkin and bob the apples! We've picked a treat-bag of ghoulish fictional goodies to creep your flesh and chill your bones for our MAGIC & MAYHEM Hallowe'en special (click for Facebook event) on Tuesday 12th October at The...

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In the year of dark and bleeding armpits, every living man I ever dallied with got in touch. As 1348 waned, I arrived under my father’s roof in a donkey-cart just as the mistletoe was strung and the autumn-fat hogs slaughtered. I was once again fortuitously widowed ...

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Oh Little Beast MP3 Read by Annalie Wilson Alice pulled the flowers from her mother’s crystal vase and threw them, yellow and bright, into the bin. They barely made a sound as they hit the bottom – but the baby...

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Read by Kim Scopes I am the body he shoves and kicks under the bushes so deep that the dogs scratch their noses on the thorns and the police have to use torches to find my pale hand curled in...

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Vengeance MP3 Read by Josie Charles The two men appeared in the car park at six o’clock. The sun was beginning to set, glowing behind them like a warning, but they didn’t take heed. At first, they were just faceless...