Flash Published by Spelk Fiction

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.'

This short piece of crime fiction, Cry Me a River,  was published online at Yellow Mama/Black Petals on Valentine's Day - February 14th -  2016. Don't expect red roses and candlelight dinners: told from a female's perspective, it's about how you really can love someone to death. Now archived online, it was recently rewritten and updated as Drown your Sorrows and is one of the thirty-five stories in Mooney's debut collection.

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 Mooney wrote about his 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.

• 'The title had us laughing out loud and it just kept getting better.'

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

• 'We love this piece of creative non-fiction.'

• 'Poster Boy is the pick of the bunch! Brilliant.'

Flash fiction Betting on Amber was published online on Friday 14th May 2021.

• 'This was so fun to read!'

• ' I found myself eager to reach the end so I could start this flash again.'

 School's Out, which was published online on Saturday 26th June 2021 as part of the annual Flash Flood, is one for the teachers out there who are holding on for summer.

 Lucille Goes Dating, a piece of creative non-fiction about heartbreak and the grief of separation, was published online on Thursday 16th September 2021.

• 'We love the way he plays with form.'

• 'A great mix of grief, humour and bitterness.' 

• 'There are also so many little details that really pull you into his world.' 

 Christ Let Me Borrow His Car was published online, in the lit mag's fourth issue, on Saturday 18th September 2021.

• 'Gripped from the opening paragraph.'

• 'The use of the Nodding Jesus is fantastic.' 

• 'The characters are well-developed without saying too much .'

• 'This story is like a shot of adrenaline.'