DAVE COOK, WRITER

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    • 5 x 100
    • A Blur Of Horses And Humans
    • A killer sales tactic
    • A Killing Spree In Northern England, 1982
    • A man of few words
    • A Present for the Neighbour
    • A Regifted Child
    • A short encounter with Death
    • A short survey
    • BANG
    • Because I Don’t Drink Tea
    • Bert Moves On
    • Box Office
    • Bricked
    • Cat And Dog Persons
    • Dead and Gone
    • Dick Dastardly
    • Dog days
    • Don’t Eat The Leftovers
    • Eating Earwax Makes You Clever
    • En Francais
    • Everything Brand New
    • Enid Is Going On A Journey
    • Fillings
    • Fun With Calculators
    • Gnome, Alone
    • Got, Got, Got, Got, Need
    • Head in the clouds
    • Her Precious Things
    • History
    • I’m With The Band
    • In Verse
    • Isabel’s Journey to the Moon
    • Jack, In The Box
    • Jennifer and the Scientist
    • Limerence
    • Mary Loves The Ocean
    • Matchbox Ballerina
    • Modern Dating for Modern Divorcees
    • Missteps
    • Mother Budgie
    • Nancy’s Morning With Nick
    • Oil
    • Penny For Them
    • Performance Anxiety
    • Potheads
    • Presents
    • Printer Error
    • Polly, The Protector
    • Reading and fighting
    • Red and Blue Shoelaces
    • Rings
    • Salt
    • Santa and the Massive Mince Pie
    • Shadow Play
    • Shoes
    • Shrink
    • Soup
    • Space: 1,002,099 AD
    • Spade
    • Speak For Yourself
    • Sports Day
    • Stains Of The Future
    • Stan
    • Story From A Song
    • Story From A Song #2
    • Story From A Song #3
    • Story From A Song #4
    • Storytelling
    • Surviving Nuclear Holocaust on Pineapple Chunks and Desperation
    • Tapped
    • The Amazing Danny Fortune
    • The Baby Changing Facility
    • The Box of Silence
    • The coffin shop
    • The Day Roger Died
    • The Edge of the Frame
    • The elephant in the room
    • The frustrations of a military mastermind
    • The Gibbon
    • The Last Place You Look
    • The Outcast (Winter Is Coming)
    • The Recall
    • The Perfect Smile
    • The Split
    • The Two Santas
    • The unfestive season
    • The Woman In The Red Ferrari
    • The Yeller Efalunt
    • Things In The Jungle That Can Eat You Alive
    • Toast
    • Toy Soldiers For Free
    • Translucent
    • True love’s gifts
    • Two Million Pounds
    • Under New Management
    • Vera Pinch Tries Again
    • Waste Not, Want Not
    • Waiting for the scythe to fall
    • We Don’t Talk
    • What He Said When He Came Home
    • Worms
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Mush Love

April 15, 2021 / David Cook / Leave a comment

A story about two mushroom-lovers going on a failed foraging expedition, up at Hencroft Hub.

The Neighbourhood Cats

March 8, 2021 / David Cook / Leave a comment
Photo by Kelvin Valerio on Pexels.com

My previous story was about dogs. This one’s about cats. And it’s not terribly pleasant. Thanks to Burnt Breakfast for publishing it!

Revenge Via Knitwear

February 26, 2021 / David Cook / Leave a comment

A comic story about a failing relationship and dog hair knitwear, at Janus Literary.

The New Norman

February 5, 2021 / David Cook / Leave a comment
Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com

Thanks to Ellipsis Zine for publishing this comic story about lies and new parenthood.

She Sings The Mist Away

December 27, 2020 / David Cook / Leave a comment

Forgot to post this one a couple of weeks back. I have a new story in Riptide Journal’s Climate Matters anthology, about magic, perceptions and pollution. You can get a free PDF of it here.

Stalactites and Stalagmites

October 31, 2020 / David Cook / Leave a comment

A tiny story about love not running smoothly, in Splonk.

Farmyard Parliament

October 29, 2020 / David Cook / Leave a comment

A political satire? A dumb story about animals? You decide!

The Cucumber Confrontation

October 17, 2020 / David Cook / 2 Comments

A story about two blokes fighting over a cucumber, right here.

Pigeon English

September 14, 2020 / David Cook / Leave a comment

A story about a talking pigeon, up at Bandit Fiction.

Dick Dastardly

August 11, 2020 / David Cook / Leave a comment

Something light-hearted here for these serious times, about the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon Wacky Races.

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A new voice in digital publishing

thinkingtwentythingsatonce

Creative writing and flash fiction

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love each other like you are the lyric to their music

Ice Pop Poetry

A print and online literary magazine for the best poetry from new and emerging poets.

Kelly Griffiths

Author of Horror and Paranormal Fiction

John Malone

what lies within: the weird, the wacky, the wonderful: writings

SAMANTHA THE READER

A BLOG FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS ...

Shreya Vikram

Blurring the lines between poetry and prose

Melissa Rose Rogers, Writer

Speculative Fiction, Light & Dark

Alex J Rankin

Writing

Portobello Book Blog

Reading by the sea

Jonzey Writer

Scrambled, Not Fried

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Kate North

Writer

jomazelis

Writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography

wake up and smell the humans

The website of Sean Crawley

Hollywood Hates Me

For casting Keanu Reeves in flicks I wanna see and J.K. Simmons in flicks I don't.

Riggwelter

A journal of poetry, short fiction, visual art and experimental media.

BRILLIANT FLASH FICTION

Published quarterly on the last day of January, March, June and September

The Bangor Literary Journal

Poetry, Flash Fiction, Art and Photography

Sophie van Llewyn

The Cabinet of Heed

literary journal

Alex Clark

Writer and poet

The Pygmy Giant

bigger on the inside

The Fiction Pool

F.A. Hakimian

Fantasy! Science fiction! Adventure and mayhem!

Dark Fiction By K. T. Rose

Horror and suspense flash fiction, short stories, and novels

Shelby Burnett

Rebecca McKinney

Writer

The Writer's Notebook

Paul Thompson

Some short stories

Lori Sambol Brody

The Drunken Llama

« An online art and literary publication »

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An intersect of Art and Authors

Konstantina Says

clairevetica

poems, prose and pathways

Microfiction Monday Magazine

50flashfiction

Stories in a nutshell

The Write Runner

Running and writing adventures of an old slow guy

Melissa's Seasons

storiesforhomes.wordpress.com/

The Stockholm Review of Literature

Great literature

Psychopomp Magazine

Ferrying you away from the familiar

Mary Lamphere

Author. Artist. Designer.

Things To Do In Devon When You're Dead...

The collected fiction of Tom Leins

Flash-365

Oh! Take a shit, read a story. - My Mother on flash fiction

The Superb

My Writing Journey

Tina Williams

Twisted Sister lit mag

Copper Smith

Maker of Fictional Mayhem

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