Much has been written about trends in publishing, but less about the fate of books after they leave […]
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My aunt wears tight jeans and stilettos. She says, why shouldn’t she? She’s in great form, after all. […]
The fat fly buzzed around Camilla’s blond head. She was in meditation pose, legs folded beneath her, perfectly […]
You hear the alarm. You press snooze with a well-practised flick of your wrist. You would have been […]
Funny Pearls are proud to present our 2021 short story competition winner MY EXCITING DAY Bett Butler […]
Day 1 I awoke from my slumber with a bad cold this morning and, as I’m due to […]
It began in March when Jo’s thoughts turned to her garden. She lived on the moor to the […]
A well-worn pair of Size 8 True Religion jeans, with trademark horseshoe stitching on the back pocket, were […]
One summer in the mid-1960s, I worked as a teenage nanny to three children: Helen aged nine, Brian […]
When Kellie pats the stool and asks me to pop up, I give her my I ain’t popped […]
Celia should, they say, tone down her make-up, crop her hair, take up knitting, macrame, embroidery and baking, […]
An old tree stands on a worn pavement in front of a suburban semi. At least fifty rings […]
When he was younger, Johnny Depp got a tattoo for his fiancée which said ‘Winona forever’, and then […]
Somewhere in the periphery of my vision, something glinted. Said vision was focused on my mirror-image, so when […]