Short Stories

Short Stories

Man Dancing

Queer Life, Queer Love – edited by Matt Bates, Golnoosh Nour, Sarah & Kate Beal

Muswell Press, London, 2021. 277 pp. ISBN 978-1-83811-016-1 (pb) 978-1-83811-017-8 (ebook)

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11 July 2021: First place in the Frome Festival Short Story Competition with Your Call.

The Bluebell Wood

Best British Short Stories 2016 – edited by Nicholas Royle

Salt Publishing, Cromer, 2016. 263 pp. ISBN 978-1-78463-063-8 (pb) 978-1-78463-064-5 (ebook)

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Also translated into Arabic in issue 42 of Fikr Magazine

The Bluebell Wood

Anglo Files No. 177, September 2015

Also translated into Arabic in issue 42 of Fikr Magazine

The Good Butler

Speak My Language, and Other Stories – edited by Torsten Højer

Robinson, London, 2015, 572pp. ISBN 978-1-47211-997-1 (pb) 978-1-47211-998-8 (ebook)

The most sharply-observed character in the collection, with a satisfying ending that gives a good kicking to the well-worn queer-lit trope of the past-it gay man powerless in the face of youthMatthew Bright, January 2016

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Raw Material

The New Writer, May/June 2010

History Lesson

Yes, I Am! Writing by South African Gay Men – compiled by Robin Malan & Ashraf Johaardien

Junkets Publisher, Cape Town, 2010, 176pp. ISBN 978-0-620-45828-3

Lucky for Some

The Sunday Express, 17/01/2010

10.30 from Metlaoui

Vrij Nederland Magazine, June 2007

Fairy Tale – an essay

The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in 
the 21st Century – edited by Ben Summerskill

Continuum, London, 2006, 214 pp. ISBN 0-8264-8785-8

As serialised in The Guardian, 22/04/06 – Why Grandad Lives with Peter

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A Portrait

New Writing 13 – edited by Toby Litt & Ali Smith

Picador, London, 2005, 355pp. ISBN 0-330-48599-7

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By the Pool

The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: New Century New Writing – edited by P-P Hartnett

Gay Times Books, Millivres Ltd., London, 2000, 305pp. ISBN 1-902852-19-2

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A Son’s Story

The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories – edited by Peter Burton

Robinson Publishing, London, 1997, 486pp. ISBN 1-85487-518-3

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Crossing the Line

Winter’s Tales 10 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith

Constable, London, 1994, 223pp. ISBN 0-09-473830-0

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A Son’s Story

New Contrast – Volume 22, Number 2, June 1994

The Good Butler

Seduction – edited by Tony Peake

Serpent’s Tail, London, 1994, 224pp. ISBN 1-85242-314-5

Tony Peake’s tale expertly teases the reader as it oscillates between prurient sex scenes and the crisp moral cleverness of its butler heroTom Morris, The Guardian, 15/02/1994

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A Son’s Story

Winter’s Tales 9 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith

Constable, London, 1993, 217pp. ISBN 0-09-472810-0

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Necessary Appendages

The Penguin Book of Contemporary South African 
Short Stories
– edited by Steven Gray

Penguin, London, 1993, 305pp. ISBN 0-14023-726-7

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Girl Dancing

Winter’s Tales 8 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith

Constable, London, 1992, 190pp. ISBN 0-09-471600-5

As read on BBC Radio 4 on 13/02/1996 by John Michie. Produced by Sara Davies

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Necessary Appendages

Winter’s Tales 7 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith

Constable, London, 1991, 304pp. ISBN 0-09-470810-X

A raunchy story of sexual ambivalencePublishing News, 16/08/1991

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