The Pick Up

The Pick Up

After a bizarre incident in a playground leads to accusations of molesting someone else’s child, a father of two turns to the media to defend himself – but gets rather more than he bargained for. A long-ish short story (11,000 words) about bringing up...
Beauchamp’s Career

Beauchamp’s Career

A novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself was inclined to think it his best novel, and the character Renée de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations....
The Literature Network

The Literature Network

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” – Jane Yolen The Literature Network offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. They currently have over 3500 full books and over...
Hundreds of Greatest Essays Ever Written

Hundreds of Greatest Essays Ever Written

“I make them up, I tell them. Out of my head.” – Neil Gaiman”The phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets...
American Paranoid Restaurant

American Paranoid Restaurant

American Paranoid Restaurantby Caleb HildenbrandtA meditation on identity, consumption, and pareidolia. Ninety-five percent true by semi-exact count. Contains the word ‘boudoir’ twice, ‘polaroid’ and ‘french fries’ six times apiece,...