These pages are a welcomed new addition to the website.  We appreciate that not everyone can write poetry but that there are many writers of good short stories.  Hopefully over the coming weeks and months we will receive many more short stories to add to this section of the site.  If you have a short story that you feel is worthy of adding to this page then please send it via email to  submission@poetryretreat.co.uk
Each story on this page is credited to the author and is subject to copyright.

This Page was last updated on 14 August 2010

New Entries
Memories of Grandma Meg Dodsworth
Untitled Mary A. Shovlin
At least I tried before I died (2) Mary A. Shovlin
At least I tried before I died (1) Mary A. Shovlin
The shoebox Richard Thézé

Anonymous  
Shaun's War  

Oliver A. Auguste (11 yrs)  
Mr Satton The haunted classroom
Night The time warp machine
The cave  

Stephen J. Bolton  
A cute wee Scottish lassie... Stop sucking your thumb girl!
Dave eats his words! The second cut
My little boy's had a tantrum!  

Ian Brown  
Fragile World Series
Chapter 1 - Fragile beginnings Chapter 5 - Fragile love
Chapter 2 - Fragile eyes Chapter 6 - Fragile recovery
Chapter 3 - Fragile heart Chapter 7 - Fragile shield
Chapter 4 - Fragile kiss Chapter 8 - Fragile wings

Lavina Burgess  
Alcohol and drugs kill The crawl space under the steps
Camping at Lost Pond The dark, damp hole
Chomp chomp The Healing Falls
Christmas... The little kitten & the Mommy cat
Hurricane Charlie... The man, dressed in a loin cloth
Jimmy-dog With an IQ The secret hiding place
My animals and their companions The shadows in the night
Mineau, The kitten from hell The three legged dog
New Hampshire Reds The two statues in the park
On our way to Grandma... What Christmas means to me
Pumpkin, my rescued pet Winter Survival Weekend
Skeleton Island Unwanted pets...

Marissa Carruthers  
High-School dreams  

Leeta Chapman  
Bedside manner The last car

Gill D'Arcy  
The night the heifers escaped  

Richard Daish  
Flies and vowels Regressional - a true story
Objet Trouvé  

Meg Dodsworth  
Jaeger. M. Memories of Grandma

Margaret A. Farquhar  
The doll  

Jarmila Gajdová  
... and the loser is ...  

Emma Gascoyne  
A child's prayer A garden of thorns

M. M. Graham  
An open window By your side

William-James Hurson (11yrs)  
The magic box The old graveyard

Lydia Jennings (aged 7yrs)  
The ant and the butterfly  

Donald Johnson Jr  
How I found Spike  

Kenneth M. Johnson  
Chapter II: Fall turkey hunt Morning hunt
From my eyes in heaven Opening day, Deer season

Linda J. McDonnell  
The move  

Valerie McKinley  
Growing up without a Daddy The potato masher
Oh happy day The thought plant
The piano  

Bez Mitchell  
Birthday daffodils  

Wayne Murray  
Coat hanger Sons and daughters of joy
Epitaph The hunt
First Love Underground
Johnny B Good  

Tina Nightingale  
Magical musical flower My chatroom romance
Memory loss Trip to the islands

Kate Paterson  
Life after death  

Lawrence Quinn  
The long road home  

Dorothy Reed  
Grandma's Apron  

Brandon Rickson (10 yrs)  
The gate to the graveyard The slasher

Paul Rickson  
Swordsman of the Gods of Wrath  

Paulie Rickson (11 yrs)  
The para-normal entrance  

Greta Robinson  
The girl in the Bower  

Mary A. Shovlin  
At least I tried before I died (1) Shattered pieces
At least I tried before I died (2) Untitled
It happened one summer Wake up and smell the coffee!
Judgement What did they do to Jesus

Roy Smith  
A day to remember Journey's end
A room with a view Love is blind

Mark Spiller  
Munchkin and his flying saucepan  

Joanne Stanley  
So help me God  

Richard Thézé  
Beach Boulevard: A place in time The shoebox

Martyn Thompson  
Italia 2001: Day One (1) Italia 2001: Roma (5)
Italia 2001: Varese (2) Italia 2001: Bergamo (6)
Italia 2001: Il Palio (3) Italia 2001: Milano (7)
Italia 2001: The Erection (4) The tale of the Here-man

Anthony Walton  
Fire bugs The Christmas gift
Grandpa's missing teeth The ghost train ride

Jamie Whitfield  
Going by storm  

J. P. Worthy  
A dead dog The Manse on Low Field Lane
A good move The minder
A misunderstood dinosaur The Outlanders
A rider of the North Plain The parting
Cleaner The price
Don's gnome The rhino
Endgame The shilling
Eve The silence of a tourist
Exposure The sitter
Feral The sleeper
Happy Jack The spill
Light The steel spike
Relocation, relocation The stunt
Serendipity The stylist
The Bradford bus The team
The call The visitors
The claiping The will
The cokehead The wreck
The companion The Womble
The crowchild Trip
The cushion Two
The examiner Wilbur's King
The fire  

Ashleigh Young (10yrs)  
Mr Jellyfingers' lucky escape  

Hayden Zimmer (11yrs)  
A bird's eye view A Runescape adventure

   

 

 

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