Short Stories and Plays

By maudsy

Short tales that need no elaboration

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Is This Yours (Ten)

By maudsy on Wed, 02 Dec 2009

Jim led with his left forearm. Although he couldn’t see the rod he’d been beaten with he assumed the guy had it secreted somewhere.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer

By maudsy on Mon, 28 Mar 2011

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer
Horror
Story
Certificate U

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer (2)

By maudsy on Sat, 02 Apr 2011

“To be honest if you’re a little strapped I could put it up for you”
Horror
Story
Certificate U

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer (3)

By maudsy on Fri, 08 Apr 2011

The office looked as organised as Boris Johnson’s vocabulary.
Horror
Story
Certificate U

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer (4)

By maudsy on Mon, 23 May 2011

My flat was one of three within a large semi-detached property, and though it hadn’t the most cordial of demeanours, it was clean and, for the first time since I had set foot in Choppingchurch, it f
Horror
Story
Certificate U

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer (5)

By maudsy on Tue, 19 Jul 2011

Horror
Story
Certificate 18

42” Flat Screen Plasma TV £399 or nearest offer (6)

By maudsy on Wed, 10 Aug 2011

Leaving for Shade in the Choppingchurch rush hour had little effect. Three cars comprised the longest queue I encountered and only because they were following a mobility scooter.
Horror
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Ahasuerus (A play) Act II

By maudsy on Fri, 18 Apr 2008

Act II Afternoon (Inside the camp)
Opinion
Other
Certificate U

Ahasuerus (A Play) Act III

By maudsy on Wed, 23 Apr 2008

Act III (Night-time) (Inside a barrack in the camp)
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

Ahasuerus (A Play) Act IV

By maudsy on Sat, 03 May 2008

Act IV (Six months later) (Morning) (Liberation)
Other Fiction
Other
Certificate U

Ahasuerus (A play) Part 1

By maudsy on Fri, 04 Apr 2008

And so it goes on
Opinion
Other
Certificate PG
Cherry

The Last Rites of Horace Tees

By maudsy on Fri, 04 Jan 2008

A nod to M R James, Dickens and Aeschylus. Vengeance as a pincer movement, before and beyond the grave.
Horror
Story
Certificate U

Litter (A play) Part 1

By maudsy on Sat, 29 Mar 2008

Everyman gets hot
Opinion
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Litter (A play) Part 2

By maudsy on Sat, 29 Mar 2008

Afternoon
Opinion
Other
Certificate 18
Cherry

Lenten Observance (A play) ACT I

By maudsy on Fri, 01 Aug 2008

No goodies, no baddies except the villain intolerance.
Opinion
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Lenten Observance (A Play) Act II

By maudsy on Wed, 13 Aug 2008

Act II Scene I Act I The sitting-room Easter Saturday a year later Afternoon (Mark is watching football on TV)
Opinion
Other
Certificate 15

Lenten Observance (A Play) Act III

By maudsy on Fri, 15 Aug 2008

A hospital ward Easter Sunday, a year later
Opinion
Other
Certificate 15
Cherry

The Bastard - He Doesn't Exist

By maudsy on Wed, 28 Jan 2009

Work in progress - inspired by Sam
Opinion
Other
Certificate U
Story of the week

Is This Yours?

By maudsy on Fri, 23 Oct 2009

I was going like the clappers trying to get this into the serial comp and now its off. Never mind here's the first bit
Drama
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours? (Three)

By maudsy on Sun, 01 Nov 2009

Jim stood trembling. This was totally unexpected. It had only been 20/1 in the paper. He’d tried tipsters in the past but you were lucky if they offered you something running at double odds.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours ? (Five)

By maudsy on Wed, 11 Nov 2009

These days technology has replaced the humdrum.
Other Fiction
Biography
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours? (Six)

By maudsy on Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Jim was in transition. He was resident in a kind of no-man’s land between mawkish self-pity and euphoria.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours? (Seven)

By maudsy on Thu, 19 Nov 2009

Jim wandered back toward the walls of the shop. Simultaneously Bob came out from behind the counter and onto the shop floor.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours? (Eight)

By maudsy on Mon, 23 Nov 2009

Jim entered a large department store and turned his own mobile on. He tried Cassie but he couldn’t get a signal.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15
Cherry

Is This Yours? (Nine)

By maudsy on Fri, 27 Nov 2009

Not at first though.
Other Fiction
Certificate 15

The Elephant That Played the Violin (Children's Radio Comp)

By maudsy on Sat, 28 Nov 2009

(Children's Radio Comp)When I see an Elehant play the violin!
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Take the next road on your left (1)

By maudsy on Wed, 10 Mar 2010

“Take the next road on your left and follow it for three hundred yards” she said.
Humour
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Take the next road on your left (2)

By maudsy on Thu, 25 Mar 2010

It was not an unhandsome face I recalled, even though I’d only seen it for a moment and that appearance was rather two dimensional being flattened against my windscreen.
Humour
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left

By maudsy on Tue, 07 Sep 2010

Where are the police when you need them?
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the next Road on Your Left (4)

By maudsy on Wed, 22 Sep 2010

“Who are your buddies?” “Sorry” “Your mates” “I don’t follow…” “Name” “Joe…er…Phil…em…Andy…” “How many names you got?” “Oh my name”
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Take the Next Road on your Left (5)

By maudsy on Mon, 25 Oct 2010

Years ago when I was 8 I wanted some sweets. I wanted sweets that badly I went to my mother’s purse and took out 10p.
Humour
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left (6)

By maudsy on Mon, 01 Nov 2010

I was pleased with the hiatus. As a man of discipline the last few hours I’d felt like a neurotic in the middle of a disaster scenario.
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left (7)

By maudsy on Mon, 08 Nov 2010

“Where the fuck are you?” Hardman bellowed into the mobile so stridently that his bark bounced off the walls of the narrow corridor inside the police station, “We’re 45 minutes behind.
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Take the Next Road on your Left (8)

By maudsy on Tue, 16 Nov 2010

She didn’t look like Val, but had that same smile, somewhere between doting and condescending. How long had it been since that final farewell?
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left (10)

By maudsy on Fri, 26 Nov 2010

Sparta General Hospital loomed into view as I turned the final corner from Erin Street.
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Take the Next Road on your Left (11)

By maudsy on Sat, 18 Dec 2010

I felt like a directionless mouse being drawn by the scent of a huge wad of cheese in one of those scientific experiments and being driven insane because it can’t get where its nose wants to lead it
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on Your left (12)

By maudsy on Mon, 27 Dec 2010

“Adeona” said Tudor “Let me introduce you. This is Charlie; but of course you’ve already met”
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left (13)

By maudsy on Mon, 10 Jan 2011

“Who’s been a silly boy then?”
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on Your Left (14)

By maudsy on Sat, 15 Jan 2011

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Certificate 15

Take the Next Road on your Left (15 and Epilogue)

By maudsy on Wed, 19 Jan 2011

He was slim, wiry and not very tall and yet he propelled himself out of trap three like a doctored whippet.
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

The Mezzotint Chapter 2 - Hope

By maudsy on Wed, 12 Aug 2015

Most people walk through doors - few have the doors melt around them. The latter are proprietors of bodies that simply diffuse the banality they...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 3 Harriet

By maudsy on Tue, 18 Aug 2015

After Creest left the village hall he decided to take the longer route home following a brook that straddled the northern perimeter of Greeven. After...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 3 Harriet Part 2

By maudsy on Tue, 18 Aug 2015

‘You asked me why she did it Professor. That, I’m afraid, remains unanswered. Sam was a bright little thing. She had very blonde hair and deep blue...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 3 Harriet Part 3

By maudsy on Tue, 18 Aug 2015

The Vicar discharged a tremulous, exhausted sigh, as if he’d just extracted himself from a lengthy session in the confessional with a particularly...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 4 Dinner

By maudsy on Sat, 22 Aug 2015

The cottage Hope Lincoln had rented was one of those picture postcard dwellings that tend to validate an English sentiment that infests itself in...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 5 - Part 1 Hope Disappears

By maudsy on Thu, 27 Aug 2015

Creest saw nothing of Hope Lincoln over the weekend after their dinner date. He was surprised, and more than a little disappointed, after adding an...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 5 part 2 Hope Disappears

By maudsy on Thu, 27 Aug 2015

‘I have a confession to make’ Creest said ‘As good a place as any’ It was a cliché but the vicar sensed a slice of banality was a requisite to...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 6 Dorian Gray

By maudsy on Fri, 04 Sep 2015

They polished off the Shiraz between them content in the knowledge that, as elderly gentlemen, three glasses of a good red was not only an equitable...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 7 Pentimento

By maudsy on Sun, 13 Sep 2015

‘I can’t really think of any parallel at all, certainly in my experience, but to be sure I would have to adopt the same tactics as a barrister’ ‘I...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 8 Revelations

By maudsy on Wed, 30 Sep 2015

Creest made his way from the campus and walked slowly down Gower Street towards his hotel. He always booked the Russell when in London. He loved the...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Mezzotint Chapter 9 The Mezzotint

By maudsy on Wed, 07 Oct 2015

Creest woke up in a white world. His ears registered a bleeping noise like a satellite beaming signals back to earth. ‘Maybe I’m beyond space. Is...
Horror
Story
Certificate 18

The Seeds

By maudsy on Wed, 15 Jun 2016

They slide over the patch of smooth grey slate encircling the orchard. ‘Once this wall seemed impassable’ Bertrand muses, nostalgia shimmering in his...
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Certificate U