My Stories

100 Word Story: Popping Off

It’s time I subjected you all to another one of my under-performing flash fictions I nevertheless…
100 Word Story: The Secret of Sig. Pieroni’s Pizza

It occurred to me that a takeaway restaurant could make a lot of money if only…
100 Word Story: Little Thieves Are Hanged

What follows here is entirely my own work and has not been published anywhere else in…
100 Word Story: The Monster

I recently entered a couple of stories into the National Association of Writers’ Groups 100 Word…
6 ‘Six Word Stories’ for the 6th (vol. II)

Those of you who have been following this site for a while (God bless you, patient…
The Church Mouse

Based on a true story… The Landlord and Landlady were busy today. Pulling out the furniture…
6 ‘Six Word Stories’ for the 6th (vol. I)

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you will perhaps remember that I have…
6 More Six-Word Stories

If you’ve been following Penstricken since it started in 2015, you may recall that on one…
Suspense: A Deliberately Awful Story

Today’s short story came about as a result of a random creatively prompt provided to me…
Christmas Eve: A Short Story

It’s Christmas on Wednesday so that can only mean one thing: it’s time for a Christmas…