SHORT STORIES
Gimme Danger, a short story by Nicholas Hogg, features in Punk Fiction, an anthology of writing inspired by Punk. Available from amazon.co.uk and other book sellers in the UK.
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Sammy, a new short story exploring the friendship of two ten year-old boys from broken homes, features alongside work from writers such as Helen Dunmore and Henry Shukman in the autumn 2009 edition of Riptide — “Sammy pulled out a flame on the end of a stick and watched it closely, his dark eyes huge in the flickering glow. I could see the scald marks around his mouth where his dad had once poured in boiling water. Just when I thought he might cry he looked at me and said, “Be a better laugh if you runaway, too.”
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Nicholas Hogg shares his thoughts on “the poetry of short fiction” in an interview with Polly Tucket of Short Fuse.
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On The Sun Warped Highway, follows US border agent Tate Morgan from California to Mexico, and was published in the literary sensation, Litro. — “For the last three years he rode the fence at Tijuana, patrolling the beach on an ATV. Black goggles and flak jackets. Agents in teams of four like mechanised horsemen of the apocalypse churning up sand or watching with binoculars the bikinied senoritas across the Mexican border. Countries divided by a mesh fence where families came for Sunday picnics and husbands talked with wives and kids through chain link.”
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The Last Man on Earth — Short story about three women and one man cycling a remote farm track in New Zealand. Featured on Arts Council website Pulp as part of a themed edition on “wide open spaces.”
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Paradise was runner up in the 2007 Willsden Herald Short Story competition, adjudicated by Zadie Smith. An anthology of the winning stories, Willsden Herald: New Short Stories 1, is available from Amazon.co.uk.
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Naked was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Ever After, a short story following two teenagers breaking into a seemingly empty house, features in online literary magazine 3AM. “The house watched them like a hollow skull. Whitewashed walls, a black front door for the mouth and buckled window panes as eyes.” Read more on the 3AM website...