Stories and poems: an index to my blogs

The following stories and poems are available to view. The "Shakespeare" stories are so named because they involve characters from Shakespeare's plays - although not as imagined by Shakespeare!


Fictional Stories

100 Words for Christmas
A Bigger Bat
A Double Proposal
A Good Disco
A Journey to the Past
A Nip of Firewater
A Piece of Cake
A Winter's Tale
An Artist's Impression
Another Dimension
Apologies for Spillages
Contracting a Kidnap
Cruises Can Be Costly
Dreaming David
Fighting Back
Half a Lifetime
How Mark Became an Apostle
Hunting the Cobra-Preta
Identifying a Flying Object
In the Library
Last Day of the Month in Nohopia
Lucy in the Library
Maybe Not
Mother Was
My Acceptance Speech
My Hero
My Journey to Burnside Farm
Not Invited
Old Habits
One Too Many
Out of the Shadows
Over The Wall
Red Stains as the Sun Sets
Resolution
Send in the Clones
Single-sentence Stories
Something Raymond Forgets
Suitable Names
Terror Can Taste So Very Sweet
The Brothers
The Burnt Babe and Black Arthur
The Case of the Missing Doughnut
The Closure of Jimmy McTavish
The Old Man and the Mountain
The Racing Puzzlers
The Tailor of Horsemarket
The Three Bears
The True Story of the Gunpowder Plot (Maybe!)
The Waiter's Tale
Three Policemen Bitten
Trust Means Everything
Try Again, Ollie
Volunteering the Dark
Where Streams of Living Water Flow
Your Wish Is ...


Shakespeare Stories

28 Pounds
A Bad Spell
A Happy Tale's Best for Summer
A Rose By Any Other Name
A Useless Organiser
Away With the Fairies
Enter Mrs Macbeth
Fairies Versus Witches
Getting Out
Ghost Swap
Immediate Response
Juliet: Hatched, Matched, Despatched
Lady Macbeth Does a Deal
Line 42
Meeting of the Brotherhood
Moving On
Mr Jakes
Mr Shylock of Little Venice
New Beginnings
Only in America
Prince Hamlet, Dimly Lit
Pursued by a Bear
Rising to the Challenge
Royal Conference
Seeing Red
Shakespeare 400 Years On
Survival at Stratford
The Doctor Looked At Me
The Glorious Twelfth
The Island
The Lear Family's Resolutions
The MasterChef Witches
The School for Scoundrels
Things That Bounce
Trick or Treat?
Valentine's Day at the Macbeths


True stories

A Helpful Person
A Lengthy Lunch in Moscow
Brake Failure
Clean Up
D-A-M
First Day At School
Flying to Moscow
Guarding the Castle
I Looked Over the Edge and Gasped
Library Rescue
Love is a Roast Potato
Nautical Rainbows From a Long Time Ago
Opportunities
Protecting the Princess
Put That Light Out
Random Meetings
Remember, Remember
RIP: A Funeral and an Ankle
Serious Injury to a Soldier
Taxed to the Hilt
The Parting of the Ways
The Tale of Dr Todd
What's In A Name?
Your Next Station Stop

Poems

A Poem About Cheese
Break
Clerihews
Cloudy Dreams
Familiar Figure
Forget the Fish
Haikus and Tankas
Kitchen Sink Thoughts
Poet's Block
Repeating the Past
The Darkest Hour
The Hottest Day
The Pockets of Power
Time: a quad poem
Tornado Twists and Shouts: a poem with introduction
Vote For Me
You Know You're Getting Older When ...


Other Pieces

A Walk on the Beach
Coffin Humour
Deadlines
Divided by a Common Language
Invented Saints
Partner Piece
The Reduced Canterbury Tales: Prologue to the Wife of Bath's Tale
The Reduced Canterbury Tales: Friar's Tale to Franklin's Tale
The Reduced Canterbury Tales: Physician's Tale to Tale of Melibee
The Reduced Canterbury Tales: Monk's Tale to Parson's Tale