Funny Short Stories

city trip for dummies

A man becomes increasingly averse to various sounds, with problematic results.

‘Who’s Zin Taylor? I’ll choose Zin Taylor. Get me Zin Taylor! Get me a Zin Taylor type! Get me a young Zin Taylor! Who’s Zin Taylor?’

A play based on one of my other stories:Danny's worst birthday.

A boy called Danny has a birthday when everything goes wrong.

An ex-pat barber living in Gozo tries to become a living resolution of a famous paradox.

A Psychiatrist's encounter with a dangerous patient.

A veteran's story from Operation Iraqi Freedom better told around a campfire than from a bar stool. "Soldiers at war" is just the setting, the story is something else entirely...

A passing dream about a long forgotten relationship made me rethink what really happened.

This historically accurate story is based on an old English folk song and is set during the Napoleonic Wars. It is more drama than funny and is a bit sad too.