Castles Over Hampstead
Two girls have named the clouds over Hampstead Heath since they were nine. The summer they turn sixteen, a dazzling first love and a quiet family catastrophe pull them apart. A story about idealism, the hard winter that follows it, and learning what it costs to turn back up for someone.
My Bad Dad or the Criminal Poo Brain
Frankenstein's monster is, contrary to popular belief, extremely articulate. He is also extremely tired. Hauled out of his own novel and into one ill-fitting adaptation after another, each louder and stranger than the last, he wants a quiet life, one uninterrupted sentence, and for everyone to please read the book.
The Middle Management Of Malice
Morthagax, Dark Lord of the Sundered Realm, hasn't felt genuinely evil in several centuries. He has graphs to prove it. When a new Hero arrives expecting a suitably terrible adventure, Morthagax does what he always does: sighs, sources the ingredients, and gets on with it. A comedy about the thankless administration of darkness
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 Bench On Bramble Crescent
Told from the bench’s plain, wise point of view, this is a small-town elegy and a love letter to the people who notice. When bureaucracy and grief threaten to erase their lives, a community learns that sitting still can become an act of resistance.
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 Cloakroom Ballet
A quiet meditation on parenting, attachment, and the choreography of care.
The Taxonomy of the Unsaid
A five-part meditation on the moments we don’t speak aloud. Each vignette is a study in implication:
My Brother, The Stranger
Leo struggles to understand the sudden, secretive changes in his older brother, Alfie.