The Un-Vented Life
Liam is drowning under the pressure of his A-Levels, and his fury is becoming impossible to contain. He's tried everything: ranting to his sister, punishing runs, pushing his body to the limit, but the anger only grows stronger. When his usual coping strategies spectacularly fail him at the worst possible moment, he stumbles upon a scientific truth that changes everything he thought he knew about managing rage. What follows is a journey from destructive heat to careful cooling, and the discovery that sometimes the answer isn't releasing the pressure, it's learning to turn down the flame.
The Performance
After a student dies, his classmates build a memorial wall, organise a tribute gig, and perform their grief for an audience. But as the event approaches, some of them begin to ask uncomfortable questions about who they're really doing this for and why no one noticed when it mattered.
Recursive
As Brian attempts to shape Tobias’s story, the boundaries between creator and character begin to blur, revealing deeper truths about avoidance, shame, and the fragile process of healing. Told with quiet intensity and recursive structure, the piece explores how fiction can become a mirror; and sometimes a conversation, between the writer and the parts of themselves they’re afraid to face.
The Alabaster Compendium
A meticulous scholar obsessed with achieving perfection through dark magic has left a trail of disappeared victims across Victorian London. As he prepares his final, most powerful ritual, a rational detective follows an impossible pattern of evidence that challenges everything he believes about reality. When their paths collide, logic confronts the supernatural in a desperate race to stop a man who has discovered that reality itself can be reshaped—at a terrible cost. A psychological dark fantasy where obsession, horror, and investigation intertwine in the shadowy streets of a city hiding ancient secrets.
The Boy On The Bridge
A teenager rebuilding after a breakdown walks the estuary bridge each day, a ritual of solitude and recovery. One October afternoon, they encounter Daniel Keppler, a former bully, standing alone at the railings. Their eyes meet. No words pass. The next day, news arrives: Daniel took his life that night.
Haunted by the encounter, the protagonist begins to sketch: the bridge, the water, Daniel's unknowable final moments. Through ritual and imagination, they process what can never be understood: two damaged people crossing paths at the threshold, each carrying something too heavy to name.
A quiet story about survival, silence, and the weight of witnessing.
The Loudest Voice In The Room
After three months away, the narrator returns to college only to face the overwhelming "help" of their former best friend, Jake. Loud, popular, and determined to force a return to normal, Jake's attempts to "fix" things might be the biggest hurdle to healing.
The Silence Between Us
A post-apocalyptic story about a young Boy and his telepathic dog, Grit,
The Weaver Of Lost Threads
While the City of Amnesty operates under the Law of Inherent Flaw, condemning individuals whose reflection shows an Eternal Stain, Solen's purpose is to challenge this narrow, dispositional view.
The Beach
James retreats to an otherworldly, unchanging beach—his private sanctuary beyond time—to escape the exhaustion and deep anger caused by his physical disability and the opportunities it cost him. His solitude is broken by a mysterious Stranger who forces him to confront his resentment.
False Starts
Eight-year-old Sam arrives at a new school, immediately feeling like an outsider due to a personal physical challenge and the disorienting change of location. Placed by a careless error into a class with pupils noticeably older and larger than himself
Checkpoints
Is about Alex, a young man with dyspraxia, whose mother, Marianne, invents a system of symbolic objects—"Checkpoints"—to help him manage his daily transitions and behaviour.
The Quiet Archivist
Dr. Alistair Finch, a child development researcher, whose orderly life is disrupted by his neurodivergent daughter, Elara. When Elara begins leaving seemingly random objects around their house
The Playground Trial
A searing, surreal reckoning with performance, trauma, and the blurred line between memory and theatre.
The Taxonomy of the Unsaid
A five-part meditation on the moments we don’t speak aloud. Each vignette is a study in implication:
The Geometry of Healing
a psychological story about Arthur, a man who has lived for 37 years with disabilities caused by a neurological block. He wakes up one morning to find the block has suddenly and completely healed
Ginger Retold
A psychological retelling of the Gingerbread Man story. The Gingerbread Man runs not just to avoid being eaten, but because the frantic repetition is the only rhythm that keeps him from dissolving.
Arrivals and Departures
A poignant short story about Dr. Malcolm Forrester, a recently deceased physics professor, who finds himself in a transitional room between the two titular doors.
My Brother, The Stranger
Leo struggles to understand the sudden, secretive changes in his older brother, Alfie.