Short Stories
NEW AND RECENT
Boot Camp in Quality Women’s Fiction 50.
“Sir, the recruit doesn’t know why she’s here, sir!” Boot camps take many different forms.
Daffodil Dell on BBC Radio 4.
“An anaesthetist with no-one to anaesthetise can only be bad news.” Tooth extractions don’t always go according to plan…
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Pink Mist in Tales of Psychotherapy
edited by Jane Ryan. (Karnac Books)“I’ve got a meeting directly after this, so could we get started? We have started? Oh.”
Some forms of brief therapy are briefer than others.
Bus Ticket Revisited
in The Mechanics’ Institute Review“I’m not sitting with a bunch of asylum seekers.”
Public transport is full of stories.
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Bus Ticket Revisited is reprinted from How Do You Pronounce Nulliparous? a collection of short stories by Zoë Fairbairns published by Five
Leaves Press.
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Other short fiction
- "Bus Ticket", "Acts of Violence" and "You Only Have To Say" in Tales I Tell My Mother (Journeyman, 1978)
- "Lots of Love", "Mrs Morris Changes Lanes" and "I was a Teenage Novelist" in More Tales I Tell My Mother (Journeyman, 1986)
- "Relics" in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind (Women's Press, 1986)
- "Covetousness" in The Seven Deadly Sins (Serpent's Tail, 1988)
- "Mrs Morris Changes Lanes" in Finding Courage (The Crossing Press, 1989 )
- "Fortitude" in The Seven Cardinal Virtues (Serpent's Tail, 1991)
- "Relics " in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (Penguin 1991)
- "The de Montfort Essay Cup" in The Man Who Loved Presents (Women's Press, 1991) Also on BBC Radio 4, 1995, 1996
- "Neck and Neck" in Serious Hysterics (Serpent's Tail, 1992)
- "One of the Family", my short story dramatised by John Petherbridge, BBC Radio 4, 1993
- "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" in By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (Virago, 1994)
- "The Rules" BBC Radio 4, 1998
- "Stop The City" BBC Radio 4, 2003
- "Bus Ticket" in Short Stories for the English Class (Les Cahiers Pedagogiques de L'AIRDIL, 2004)
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