Flash Fiction
Local Voice
To secure an estate-agency job, Nadine Okoro leases an approved accent, then learns that the voice her interviewers accepted may be expected beyond the interview.
Genre: Comic Speculative Dread888 words5 min read
My Fiction Archive
Flash Fiction, Short Stories, Novelettes, Novella and Novels.
Narrative is the home for my fiction, from flash pieces and short stories to longer projects and novels. Some pieces are finished. Some are still being worked on.
Latest Entries
Novel
The Gilded Gag
The Gilded Gag follows Marcus Reid, a struggling writer with more unfinished drafts than finished excuses. When Marcus turns to Geoff, an AI assistant, to help him write a satirical novel, the relief is immediate. Geoff…
Genre: Contemporary Comic Satire, Literary Fiction172 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Kintsugi Echo and the Golden Flaw
The final danger is not destruction. It is seduction. When the past begins offering perfect alternatives, old comforts, and the chance to undo every wound, the team must choose between a flawless dream and the damaged…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction47 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Cartographer’s Paradox and the Unmappable Heart
Some things cannot be measured without being damaged. When a new threat begins mapping WHAT!, classifying its mysteries, and reducing the unknowable to tidy systems, the team must protect the one thing no chart can hold:…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction49 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Empathy Problem and the Borrowed Feeling
Chaos was one thing. Forced harmony may be worse. When people begin to grow calmer, kinder, and strangely less themselves, the team uncovers a threat that does not want to destroy humanity but to smooth it…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction47 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Kintsugi Principle
Reality is breaking again, but this time the answer may not be repair. As cracks spread through the world they have fought to save, Vic and the team are forced towards a reckless idea: perhaps the…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction52 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Shadow, the Doubt, and the Sentient Metaphor
At WHAT! Language is no longer staying on the page. Metaphors begin to manifest, doubt takes on shape, and meaning itself turns unstable. As words become dangerous in new ways, the team faces an enemy that…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction52 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Socio-Ontological Function of a Nice Cup of Tea
Reality has been saved before. Keeping it human may be harder. When a colder, tidier order begins pressing in on WHAT!, Vic and the team must defend the small, inefficient rituals that make life worth living,…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction56 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Viction Particle
Thought is becoming dangerous. Emotions are starting to alter the fabric of reality, and the team at WHAT! uncover a force that may connect feeling, matter, and existence itself. Then the auditors arrive, and they have…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction50 words1 min readOutline
Novella
Geoff, Schrödy and the Conceptual Wardrobe
The biscuits were only the beginning. Now, a theoretical man called Geoff has appeared, documents are developing opinions, and the boundary between idea and object has started to fail. At WHAT!, the team must figure out…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction54 words1 min readOutline
Novella
The Crumb Constant
At WHAT!, even biscuit theft comes with standards. No one steals Rich Tea on purpose, after all, they’re the beige wallpaper of biscuits. So when the Chocolate Hobnobs vanish without crumbs, wrappers, or witnesses, Professor Vic…
Genre: Comic Speculative Fiction1,529 words8 min readDraft