Stories of mine you can read right now
‘Titch’, published on Granta
You should have seen him that night, though. He was going round the bar stealing people’s drinks and swiping chips off their plates. I didn’t know what’d got into him. I was like, Titch, calm the fuck down, chill out like. But Titch wasn’t having any of it.
‘Real Love’, published on the Stinging Fly website (along with a note about the story’s composition)
The gull lifted her wing and winced: the size of an eye, the wound was red and weeping. Inhaling deeply, she blinked and stretched out a leg. It was early morning, the town still and quiet.
From Open Up
‘Wales’ (downloads as PDF)
If you’re in the UK, you can listen to my reading of the story for BBC Radio 4
From We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
‘Castle View’ (downloads as PDF)
‘Clap Hands’ (downloads as PDF)
‘all the boys’ (downloads as PDF)
‘all the boys’ has been anthologised in:
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
