Short Stories Published on Medium

Published on Monday 21st September 2015, The Last Round details the final decisions of a terminally-ill alcoholic.

Published on Monday 14th December 2015, Big Marky charts the rise and fall of a hard bastard with a fatal weakness. 

• 'Raw, coarse brilliance.'

• 'Poignant and tough. Nicely done.'

• 'Crisp, tight and plenty of colour.'

Published on Friday 13th May 2016, Friday, the 13th is a very short story about what happens when you can't resist temptation.

• 'Absolutely hilarious. Very well done.'

• 'Made me laugh, while also speaking of several things that contemporary life presents to us.'

• 'Loved it!'

Published on Friday 27th January 2017, Wrong Turn is the story of a father's revenge. 

Published on Friday 12th May 2017, CON/SENSUAL explores prostitution from both sides of the transaction.

• 'Brilliant!'

Published on Friday 31st January 2020, View from the Cab is a personal story about the devastating impact of suicide.

• 'Excellent piece.'

• 'It’s not easy to get the picture across in such a short number of words. Well done.'

• 'I do know a train driver and he would say that your story captured his experience exactly. Well done.'

• 'Narrative voice pulled me right along. A fine line walked well.'

• 'Suicide ripples through the lives of everyone it touches.’ 

A man's woes can only be compounded by the desires and needs of a woman. Only Paper was published online by Dead Guns Press in September 2015. 

• 'Awesome story that I was really into. Few stories pull me in and this one did.'

• 'A dirty ditty from across the Pond.'

What do a bag of coke, an unrelenting criminal and a tough detective have in common? Food Chain was published online by Dead Guns Press in December 2015.

• 'Mooney returns with another fine knuckle-busting tale from the UK.' 

• 'You gotta love the British grit coming outta the UK these days.'

• 'I especially love the dialogue. An awesome read.'

Things get personal for a professional assassin in What Goes Around, published in Open Pen's One-Off-Zine in March 2016.

• 'Edgy, brave and utterly readable.'

• 'One of the most interesting magazines in world literature today.'

• 'Undoubtedly the most important literary magazine around right now.'

Not Enough Yesterdays, a 100-word piece of creative non-fiction that I wrote about my greatest sadness, headlined the online magazine's ninety-sixth edition on Monday 1st June 2020.

The notorious gangster shows a softer side in Mr Capone Was Our Milkman,  published in the online lit mag's inaugural edition on Wednesday 3rd June 2020.

Poster Boy, a piece of creative non-fiction that stemmed from the first great sadness of my life, was published online on Saturday 6th June 2020.