Funny Pearls are proud to present our 2021 short story competition winner MY EXCITING DAY Bett Butler […]
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Funny Pearls are proud to present 2021 short story competition runner-up: FAMILY MAGIC Sascha Goluboff My mother […]
My unmittened finger pauses – mid-air. I glance back. ‘Best behaviour, please.’ My breath is billowing vapour. Vik […]
‘Court is now in session,’ declared Lord Carbon cuttingly. ‘In my capacity as Star King Element, I now […]
The waitress is about my age, but she looks older. She’s wearing orthopaedic shoes and a black frilled […]
The phone call came at 6:03 PM that Saturday and lasted thirty-two seconds. My Neapolitan grandmother, Tina, who […]
Sally corners me in the cereal aisle. Stuck between weetabix and muesli with a milk-stained Baby Bjorn strapped […]
Perhaps this one wouldn’t be a disaster. Her friend, Rosalyn, had recommended the website and she had ended […]
The residents of Pokey Gardens had been experiencing a long sultry summer, and nerves were frayed. The Pokey […]
It began in March when Jo’s thoughts turned to her garden. She lived on the moor to the […]
‘Oh, please come and see us!’ we implored him. I am struggling, thirty years on, to untangle the […]
‘I’m not going; it’s freezing, and it’s basically begging for stuff that makes your teeth fall out. Plus, […]
In Which The Words of a Mother Hen Are Ignored by Her Less Noteworthy But Infinitely More Famous […]
War has broken out between me and the teenage langur monkey. We’ve progressed into the stereotypical betel-nut-chewing-Bollywood-villain phase […]