Curious stories for curious people

Welcome. While I try to find an agent or publisher, I’ve decided to publish a lot of short stories, poetry, and the odd incomplete novel (and why it has never been finished).

All of this is free for you to read.

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Before you head into the short stories, enjoy reading about how a lot of hard work can result in failure of a creative kind. This is the kind of failure that nourishes the imagination and results in new work. Check out the Sin Bin.

The Curious Stories

Mountain pressure
14/02/2025
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Noel Murphy
Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind in the needles above and around them.
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Lucy’s days
13/02/2025
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Tim Smith
The noodles would slip down and fill his stomach, taking away the humiliation he felt at being in debt to his own daughter.
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A patient shark
24/01/2025
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Tim Smith
Maybe I am an escapologist and this is a show? Seems unlikely.
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Love
23/01/2025
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Tim Smith
Their laughter isn’t loud. It is a lovely, moving event. They are gone quickly.
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Janssen Stand Down!
22/01/2025
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Noel Murphy
Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
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