Stories Karl Whitney - - - - Short short stories Assorted Author Biographies: Please File - An attempt to experiment with different forms. Published on the Schemes litblog. (Link) The Window of the Cafe - Inspired by Georges Perec's experimental transcription of scenes from the windows of cafes in Paris. The Canterbury Tales - Okay, not the Canterbury Tales; a Canterbury Tales. Unfinished. Contains needless swearing. Frankie and Johnny were lovers - Award winning story. Okay, it was longlisted for the Dave Eggers Guardian Short Short Story contest in June 2004. Godard/Arthur Penn/Americana mash-up. (Link to story on Guardian site here.) The first thing you would have seen - A follow up to the Frankie and Johnny story, from a different perspective. Mind the Gap - I think this is a bit of a Joyce Dubliners tribute, although I could be wrong. Going Home - Written after a late night walk down O'Connell Street in Dublin in July 2003. Adventures in the Golden Triangle - The Golden Triangle is an area of Norwich where students live - mostly redbrick terraced houses. Hoxton was the coolest place in the universe on 24th February 2002. Groupthink - My love of offices, office politics, mob mentalities and people in general comes through here. Link to original story on Schemes here. The Adventures of Minor Jesus Me and Pete Doherty - Written on reading an article about Pete Doherty, lead singer of Babyshambles, by a guy called Max Carlish. It's satire, of a sort. She knew it was love - This story of obsession was submitted to Constrained.org. The challenge: tell a story in one sentence She wore these shoes - A short short story about heartbreak and footwear. They called him the Snake - Written for a creative writing class. The assignment was to retell a well known story. I chose something biblical and set it in San Francisco. You never see a dead squirrel - Written during a creative writing class at the end of last year. Based on a true story. Two Men - Written for the excellent Constrained.org website, but never submitted. The constraint was to tell a story in 42 words. In the end, I told a story in 5 paragraphs of 42 words. Two Professors - Ah! Higher education! Cramped office space; books loaned but never returned. Why I wasn't there - A sick note laced with sophistry crafted especially for those who continue to struggle with the space-time continuum. The Story of the Backwards Girl - Written for the collaborative fiction site the Earlham Road Project. I was reading Hemingway's stories at the time; I'm not sure where the widescreen astronomical apocalyptic opening came from, though. I've since learned that Jack Vincennes is the name of the character Kevin Spacey plays in LA Confidential, although when I was writing the story I wasn't sure where I had heard the name. This is where it will happen - A fragment. Longer short stories The Boy Who Invented Lipstick - A shaggy dog story. You get what you deserve Hiram Doodlebaum, Novelist - A lost work by a legendary author is rediscovered. Small Change - The cost of living, or: How much money does one man need? Health Food - A tale of passion, revenge and environmentally sound cleaning products. The Man in the Hat -------- Home | Dumb Riffs Blog | About This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.