Fiction

‘I have a habit of telling stories too fast, expecting a coherent narrative to spring up from a few words flimsily strung together on a string. The problem is words words words. The more neatly I arrange them, the more they lose their flavour.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 1st March 2023

Not Any Old Hundred Years

‘I remember my uncle cutting his toe nails with a razor blade. I remember my father drunk from Sunday to Sunday. There has to be a monument to the failures as well.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 2nd February 2023

Online Fiction Series 2022

Contributors: Nicole Flattery, Niamh Mulvey, Najat Abed Alsamad, Gianluca Nativo, Louise Hegarty, Roisín O’Donnell, Lisa Owens, Oisín Fagan, Chetna Maroo, June Caldwell, with an introduction by Editor at Large, Thomas Morris

The Stinging Fly Essay Fiction 2nd January 2023

Happiness

‘Something always came down like a guillotine to split her life in two, so that on one side was happiness, and on the other, the present.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 14th December 2022

Tomahawk

‘This was in Montpellier, in 2012. He was a legionnaire from Birmingham; his reclaimed name was Roger, and he was the most intelligent murderer I have ever met.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 9th November 2022

The Roof Has Fallen In (a novel extract)

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Tell Someone

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

The Untameable Donkey

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Maura’s Back (a novel extract)

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

S.E.A.L.

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Waiting for Asimo

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Black Cat Prowling on a Harbour Wall

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

My Name is Raven, and I am 12 Years Old

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Dino Matcha

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Throwing an Orange Up in the Air

Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 47, Volume 2: Winter 2022-23

Mathematics

‘The drawer beside Roberta’s bed contained remnants of other people’s fun: a small mother-of-pearl box, inlaid with gold, a lipstick that was a stripe of fuchsia, a lucky charm in the shape of a dollar sign.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 21st October 2022

[Cue happiness]

‘In the hours and days after seeing Eugene, I was particularly bad: sobbing uncontrollably, vomiting, roaring into the hell’s bells of night. I prayed for typhus, Asiatic cholera, plain old consumption, anything that would do the job for me. I had no way to impart how terrible and terrified I felt except to write it down.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 5th October 2022

Chemistry Read

‘Her husband was asleep beside her, snoring gently, and she lay, breathing shallowly, planning her next move.’

ThomasMorris Fiction 7th September 2022

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