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Short Stories Published Online:

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

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

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


  • 'Brilliant!'

Published  by Spelk Fiction 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.’ 

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.


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

Potato Soup Journal

National Flash Fiction Day

Burnt Breakfast Magazine

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.'

Burnt Breakfast Magazine

National Flash Fiction Day

Burnt Breakfast Magazine

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.'


 

National Flash Fiction Day

National Flash Fiction Day

National Flash Fiction Day

 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.

Unfortunately Lit Mag

Roi Faineant Literary Press

National Flash Fiction Day

 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.' 

 

Truffle Lit Mag

Roi Faineant Literary Press

Roi Faineant Literary Press

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.'

Roi Faineant Literary Press

Roi Faineant Literary Press

Roi Faineant Literary Press

 Decessit Sine Prole was published online on 31st October 2021. 


Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

 

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

Nobody's Child, a short story about the Mafia, was published online on 15th November 2021.  


Free Flash Fiction

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

She, Her, Everything, Always - another piece of creative non-fiction - was published online on 20th November 2021.  


Sledgehammer Lit

Pigeon Review: Art and Literary Journal

Sledgehammer Lit

My Mother Didn't:, a piece of creative non-fiction about my mother's death, was published online on 21st February 2022.


  • 'Powerful.

Infinity Wanderers

I've got a couple of things in the inaugural issue of  Purple Unicorn Media 's Infinity Wanderers print magazine, published on 20th April 2022. First, an author interview. Second, a reprint of Mr Capone Was Our Milkman, which was first published by Truffle Lit Mag  in June 2020. 

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