It’s never easy to take your clothes off in front of someone new, but by the time you […]
Short stories
My dad owns a pastry shop. He makes jam doughnuts and brownies. He makes French pastries and apple […]
Do you want to hear the truth about a fairy story you were probably told a thousand times […]
Funny Pearls are proud to present 2021 short story competition runner-up: JUST ANOTHER SLOW DAY AT THE […]
Funny Pearls are proud to present our 2021 short story competition winner MY EXCITING DAY Bett Butler […]
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 […]