fiction

Sometimes, What’s Right In Front of You…. by RV Neville

27 November 202511 January 2026

What was that? The washing machine was empty, it was definitely empty. This morning after its terminal hissy fit, Maeve had removed the wet sheets. She’d rung the cloths, heavy with unspun… Read More »Sometimes, What’s Right In Front of You…. by RV Neville

Clamshell by David Carson

14 May 202530 May 2025

“See that dog, if it’s off the lead, I’ll shoot, I’ll fucking shoot.” A day of contrasts, I think. Blue sky overhead, a mountain peak… Read More »Clamshell by David Carson

Red Rock

20 August 202220 August 2022

Zusana Storrier’s chilling, supernatural story of murder on the cliffs of Arbroath racks up the suspense until the end.

Easter Island

22 January 202222 January 2022

An aging recluse contemplates the end of the world in F.R. Malaney’s haunting, heart-breaking account from a dystopian future.

The Understanding Stranger

22 January 202222 January 2022

A chance meeting with an understanding strange in a railway carriage changes everything in a story of mystery and suspense.

December at the Theatre Royal

19 December 202119 December 2021

Sue Baxter’s Christmas ghost story captures the spirit of 1960s Dundee. Read on for an extract when things start to get spooky…

Oh, Miss Hepburn

19 December 202124 January 2025

At the Green’s Playhouse in Dundee, a teenage usherette becomes entangled with a lecherous manager. Can Audrey Hepburn help?

I Again Am Strang by David Carson

14 July 202114 July 2021

We may be coming to the end of the lockdown, so perhaps it’s time for a heart-warming story of resolution and fortitude.
Written in Doric Scots and read by David Rankine.

Freedom by Fiona Pretswell

14 July 202114 July 2021

This deeply moving letter shows the human cost of domestic abuse during the Covid 19 pandemic. Read by Deirdre Davis.

Carse Wandering by Roddie McKenzie

14 July 202114 July 2021

Part diary, part poem and part conversation, this is a journey of discovery which shows us the restorative power of the countryside.