Short Stories
Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Passing for Normal, Short Stories - Saturday, September 17, 2011 15:56 - 3 Comments
Passing for Normal A sad little symphony for children
Desperate to console his sobbing daughter, who was suddenly aware of her own mortality, Dave Prescott attempts to convey his views on the topic, and watches in horror as the conversation descends into farce...
New in Ceasefire, Short Stories - Sunday, October 10, 2010 3:15 - 3 Comments
Short Story
‘The ants’
In a new exclusive short story by Dave Prescott, Stu, a dutiful, careful husband, is dutifully and carefully pretending to mow his lawn. When his wife joins him, they quickly find themselves talking, and thinking, about being 'anti-death', the fate of the universe, and ants.
Arts & Culture, Features, Short Stories - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 18:25 - 1 Comment
Short Story: The Zoo
Ceasefire presents 'The Zoo', an exclusive short story by acclaimed writer Ben White. After a traumatic onslaught of unremitting violence, a community's children, adults and animals are thrust into a vortex of incomprehension and bewilderment.
Features, Short Stories - Saturday, August 7, 2010 12:16 - 1 Comment
Short Story – “Bang crash splat”
In a new exclusive short story by Dave Prescott, a street musician is faced with an unusual audience and finds himself at the centre of a surreal, and unnerving, series of events. A short tale, comic yet sombre, about what happens when intensities come into contact with each other.
Arts & Culture, Short Stories - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:36 - 0 Comments
Short Story: “Permission”
Ben White Abu Samer scratched his belly and ignored the coffee on the table. He was watching the news. The volume was loud and the reporter urgently insistent, but his mind wandered. Every few minutes his wife Imm Samer would crash together some pans in the kitchen, and Abu Samer would stir, shift his weight [...]More in Media
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