Short Stories Published on Medium
Mooney wrote Only Child after the suicide of a loved one tore his life apart.
'A poignant and sobering read.'
Flash Published by Spelk Fiction
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.'
- 'Short, but very sweet. Keep up the good work.'
- 'Excellent!'
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.’
More Published Stories
Dead Guns Press I
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
Dead Guns Press II
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.'
Dead Guns Press II
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
Dead Guns Press II
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.'
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
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.
Open Pen
Microfiction Monday Magazine
Yellow Mama/Black Petals
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.'
Microfiction Monday Magazine
Microfiction Monday Magazine
Microfiction Monday Magazine
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.
Truffle Lit Mag
Microfiction Monday Magazine
Microfiction Monday Magazine
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.
Potato Soup Journal
Potato Soup Journal
Potato Soup Journal
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.