Short Stories

A short story from the new collection This Train Is For published by No Alibis Press

Two couples form a friendship over regular games of bridge but suspicion clouds it

The late Moroccan author’s Something Strange, Like Hunger is now out in English

First published in The Irish Times, the story has been revised for her book, Dance Move

Hannah worked in a florists but she was no romantic, especially not on February 14th

A drag queen is dragged into a confrontation on Eleventh Night in Belfast

A woman’s routine of a coffee and bagel is challenged by a beggar pricking her conscience

Kevin Barry is the author of Night Boat to Tangier and That Old Country Music, among other books

Despite glad tidings, all is not sweetness and light at a festive gathering of old friends

Author discusses BBC National Short Story Award’s influence and WWII Belfast novel

In this story from the actor’s debut collection, Disappearing Act, a man acts up at a funeral

A young woman attends Cúirt and court in the same day and suffers the consequences

A teacher faces a test during the pandemic in this short story by Paula McGrath

Belfast may be changing, but Jonty is determined to fly the flag for tradition. Then things take a turn

Mitzie Murphy, who has a BA in psychotherapy, has used writing in her therapeutic work

‘There was a fierce whack of entitlement off it, the problem ... being that I didn’t belong to anyone’

The email came from someone in Northern Ireland. Was he available to sing at parties?

A young homeless man swaps the streets of Galway city for a dream home in the country

A new story by David Morgan O’Connor

A ghost story from the author’s debut collection I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay

Taken from Midfield Dynamo, several variations of a far from blissful bungalow home

An elderly man faces being tested for Covid in this award-winning writer’s story

A slightly disturbing tale from Paradise Block, Alice Ash’s debut collection

A harassed artist’s installation critiquing the Irish property market causes a bit of a storm

A victim of domestic violence copes with a difficult Christmas in London

The An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year for 2018

It is nine days before Christmas, and on Oliver Plunkett Street two women are window-shopping

A young woman reflects on the price she pays for her relationship with a wealthy man

‘The zip on a body bag. It’s not like any zip she’s heard before’

Longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award, a tale of bullying and parental love

A tale of alienation and isolation by the former guitarist of ASIWYFA

From her debut collection, Broadwater, a story about the immigrant experience in London

A trip to Athens forces a woman to confront the truth about her relationship

Part of the New Irish Writing series

A woman must move in with her sister and niece in this new work by the Exciting Times author

Summer Fiction: A story by the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times Audible award and author of This Happy

Past and present collide at a school reunion when a woman meets up with a lost love

Getting caught out on a trip away forces a man to think of home

12 Stories of Christmas, day 9: ‘Con McCarthy was our connoisseur of death. He was its most knowing expert’

A ferry full of Irish women crosses the Irish Sea