Humour Short Stories

F*cking West End Girls! “Well, what about if we meet somewhere half way then?” Terry, Liam and Alex leaned in close to Ricky, hoping to hear the other side of the conversation. Ricky shook his head and rolled his eyes as the reply came…

45 years ago today, man walked on the moon for the first time. And quite frankly, it feels like everyone’s been banging on about it way too much ever since. The moon this. The moon that. Oooh, isn’t the moon wonderful? Isn’t the moon…

Even in the height of summer, the church hall was freezing. The women all sat on brown plastic chairs, which they had placed as close to the tiny blow heater as possible. Barbara held her car keys in her hand, rubbing her arms vigourously.…

Sophie hadn’t always had spots. She had been relatively blemish free as a teenager. It wasn’t until her late twenties that things began to change. She put it down to a mixture of stress from her recently acquired accountancy job coupled…

A family is gathered together in their living room, somewhere in Ireland. The rain is beating at the window, as the mother draws the curtains to a close. The father removes the framed Sacred Heart from the wall. The children studiously…

The radio shrieked with report of simian rebellion. “The apes… the apes… They have rebelled and there are too many… I... Don’t know what to…” The signal was too distorted to say for sure, but Farmer Jones was fairly confident that he…

I’ll tell you all about the fella who lived around the corner there. Gary Traynor was his name. Gary Traynor lived most of his life in, in terror. Now, it was a sort of irrational terror that was based heavily on disgust. To be particular,…

“This bench meant the world to old Paul. Every day for nearly twenty years, without fail, he would sit here and watch the world go by. There isn’t a regular of the park, who didn’t know Paul. Whether we knew him merely to nod to and…